![]() ![]() He packs a snowball in his pocket to save for the next day (a plan which does not go well). ![]() “he knew he wasn’t old enough - not yet.” I assume Peter is young because when he tries to join “the big boys” in a snowball fight, he ends up on the ground, with a snowball exploded on his chest. ![]() The following page is just white snow, purple toe tracks, and Peter in his red snowsuit. “Down fell the snow - plop! - on top of Peter’s head.” He makes tracks in the snow, pointing his toes out and then in. If this book were written in 2017, Peter would have exciting snow adventures, but here, he has quiet ones. This is a quiet book, the way the world is quiet when covered in new snow. The Snowy Day is about a boy named Peter who wakes up on a winter morning and heads outside to play. Or perhaps it started white but it now has pink and blue and green and purple splashes. A book about a snowy day? With a little boy wearing a red snowsuit? Yes, please! In 1963, it won the Caldecott Medal, given to “the most distinguished American picture book for children.”Īs a Central Texan, born and raised, I don’t see much snow. The book has now been in print for fifty-five years. I chose The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. ![]() One of our assignments was to take a picture book which had been in print for at least 25 years and talk about why we thought it had endured, using text and pictures. I wasn’t thinking about literacy for life, but I learned something I remembered ever since: I learned that children’s books have their own immortality. In college I took a children’s literature class. ![]()
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