![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not that a literature for children of color doesn’t exist it’s that so much of the extant literature is lacking in the essential quality that makes literature for children so extraordinary a form: imagination. This 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition celebrates the classic beloved by generations of readers and listeners. COURTESY OF THE EZRA JACK KEATS FOUNDATION Kids and families love Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day so much that they’ve checked it out of the New York Public Library system more than. Well-meaning acquaintances regularly forward me lists of great children’s books with black children in them close friends regularly buy me such books, when they come across them. The magic and wonder of winter’s first snowfall is perfectly captured in Ezra Jack Keat’s Caldecott Medal-winning picture book. It covered everything as far as he could see. But when I look at the library we’ve built for our kids, I do wish for more books for children that followed Keats’ lead, books that use children who look like mine to capture the magic in the mundane, as the best books for children do. Because what I’ve learned-and what I hear often from other parents of children of color-is that all too often the books that do contain kids who look like mine are, alas, not that fun to read. The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats 113,366 ratings, 4.19 average rating, 3,957 reviews Open Preview The Snowy Day Quotes Showing 1-1 of 1 One winter morning Peter woke up and looked out the window. There are only so many masterpieces out there. Wishing there were more children’s books like The Snowy Day is a bit like wishing there were more grownup books like Anna Karenina. ![]()
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