Ezra Jack Keats

Ezra Jack Keats made The Snowy Day in 1962 with collage of patterned papers, oilcloth and spattered paint, following a small Black boy, Peter, through a city snowfall. It was one of the first mainstream American picture books with a Black child as an ordinary hero, and won the Caldecott Medal. Peter grows up through later books such as Whistle for Willie and Peter's Chair.