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 ...

When Ezra Jack Keats died in 1983 in the early morning hours, his best friend Martin Pope, who’d held his hand as he passed, gazed at the skies above New York Hospital. They glowed a vivid or… ...

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.

In 1962 "The Snowy Day" broke the color barrier in mainstream children's book publishing. In 1963 it won the Caldecott Medal , the highest honor a children's book could win at that time.

Author Andrea Davis Pinkney used to sleep with a copy of The Snowy Day. "I loved that book — it was like a pillow to me," she says. More than 50 years ago, Peter — an African-American boy ...

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 ...

The U.S. Postal Service has unveiled a "forever" stamp collection featuring illustrations from the 1962 children's book The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats.

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats is one of those books I vividly remembered having read to me when I read it to my own daughter. It’s that rare work of art that is timeless but also absolutely ...

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.