A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day Southern Fiction and Shel Silverstein

and Shel Silverstein

traffic on the little island comes to a halt

fear reigned in the small village of Salem

Featuring a gold foil–embossed cloth cover

A marvel of creative imagination

A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day Southern Fiction and Shel SilversteinA celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day. The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keatss obvious talent, his father worried that Ezras dream of being an artist was an unrealistic one. But Ezra was determined. By high school he was winning prizes and scholarships. Later, jobs