The Houston Grand Opera (HGO) premiered its latest production, The Snowy Day, on Dec. 9.It was a watershed moment, as the opera is an adaptation of a popular children’s picture book of the same ...

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… ...

Ezra Jack Keats’ beloved 1962 book, “The Snowy Day,” is credited as the first mass-market children’s storybook to feature a black protagonist — a preschooler named Peter joyfully ...

A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of the Snowy Day By Andrea Davis Pinkey Illustrated by Lou Fancher & Steve Johnson A Poem for Peter is such a beautiful book!

Awaking to a fresh sheet of snow covering the ground, presenting endless possibilities of what the day will bring. This is perfectly captured in the Minnesota Opera’s newest offering, The Snowy Day.

The best way to enjoy “The Snowy Day and Other Stories” at Theatre of Youth is by first reading (or rereading or picking up for the 112th time) the delightful books by Ezra Jack Keats that ...

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.

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 ...

The answer is “The Snowy Day,” a 1962 children’s picture book by Ezra Jack Keats about a young boy in the city delighting in ...

A Poem for Peter is such a beautiful book! It is a tribute to Ezra Jack Keats and his children’s picture book, The Snowy Day, the 1963 Caldecott Medal winner for collage art.Written in free ...