A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
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Published
New York : Viking / Penguin Young Readers Group, 2016.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
52 pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
Status
Main Library - Children's Picture Books
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Published
New York : Viking / Penguin Young Readers Group, 2016.
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
LG
Level 3.8, 1 Points
Level 3.8, 1 Points
Lexile measure
620
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 52).
Description
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 Keats's obvious talent, his father worried that Ezra's dream of being an artist was an unrealistic one. But Ezra was determined. By high school he was winning prizes and scholarships. Later, jobs followed with the WPA (Works Progress Administration) and Marvel comics. But it was many years before Keats's greatest dream was realized and he had the opportunity to write and illustrate his own book. For more than two decades, Ezra had kept pinned to his wall a series of photographs of an adorable African American child. In Keats's hands, the boy morphed into Peter, a boy in a red snowsuit, out enjoying the pristine snow; the book became The Snowy Day, winner of the Caldecott Medal, the first mainstream book to feature an African American child. It was also the first of many books featuring Peter and the children of his -- and Keats's -- neighborhood.
Target Audience
Ages 7-10.
Target Audience
620L,Lexile
Target Audience
Decoding demand: 84 (very high),Semantic demand: 97 (very high),Syntactic demand: 81 (very high),Structure demand: 87 (very high),Lexile
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,LG,3.8,0.5,186502.
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