A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day Southern Fiction at the coming of the

at the coming of the Blood Moon

" —Kelly Thompson

Her family lovingly calls this “The Noodles

and Shel Silverstein

A marvel of creative imagination

A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day Southern Fiction at the coming of theA celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day. The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keatss obvious talent, his father worried that Ezras dream of being an artist was an unrealistic one. But Ezra was determined. By high school he was winning prizes and scholarships. Later, jobs