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Pinkney, Andrea Davis

A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of "The Snowy Day"

56 pp. | Viking | November, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-425-28768-2 $18.99
(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Lou Fancher & Steve Johnson. "Long before you arrived, / little brown-sugar child, he was born..." In evocative verse, Pinkney presents a picture book biography of Keats. It's also a love letter to Peter, Keats's Snowy Day protagonist. Pinkney highlights Keats's attunement to issues of discrimination, poverty, and social justice. Fancher and Johnson thoughtfully incorporate Snowy Day motifs and other images from Peter's world into their collage illustrations. Bib.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2017

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