First published 50 years ago, “The Snowy Day” is a gentle story that revels in the wonder of an urban snowfall. It also was quietly groundbreaking, both as what is widely considered the first ...

The Snowy Day tells the story of a young boy who ventures out to play in the snow in his bright red snowsuit, climbing, sliding, making tracks, and building a snowman.. Middle school students at St.

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats tops the list with 485,583 checkouts. The 1962 children's book is a Caldecott Medal winner and is one of the earliest examples of diversity in children's books.

“The Snowy Day” has been in print and in the library’s catalog continuously since 1962. ... According to NYPL, it is one of the library’s top-circulated books every year, ...

Set in 1980s South Korea, Lee Chang-dong’s book “Snowy Day and Other Stories” hangs in the shadow of the violent Gwangju massacre. By Camille Bromley Camille Bromley is a writer and editor ...

Minnesota Opera’s production of “The Snowy Day” takes its audience into the world of the 1963 Caldecott Medal-winning picture book by author and mixed media artist Ezra Jack Keats.

The U.S. Postal Service is honoring “The Snowy Day,” one of the most beloved American children’s books of the 20th century, with a series of new postage stamps. Four new “forever” stamps ...

Ezra Jack Keats' The Snowy Day topped the list, followed by Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital. She has been with the brand ...

Published in 1962, “The Snowy Day” was the first-ever children’s book that featured a Black protagonist, and it won the Caldecott Medal, America’s highest honor for the most-distinguished ...

Peter, the little brown boy swathed in a bright-red snowsuit, was the kid I wanted to be. He was the star in Ezra Jack Keats’ classic children’s picture book, “The Snowy Day,” and his only ...