(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

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Jody Wheeler. In a book "based on the characters created by Ezra Jack Keats," Roberto, familiar to readers of Pet Show, is disappointed when his older brother forgets to pick him up from school. Roberto's emotions come through and the art is similar in style to Keats's, but the book isn't quite strong enough to stand on its own.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth