snowy day

Description

Children love seeing the white snow fall. The main character, Peter, wakes up in the morning, sees snow piled up, and runs outside. Peter walks here and there, taking footsteps here and there, and sometimes snoops around while older children play. Then he bundles up his eyes, puts them in his pocket, and comes home. What happened to the eyes?

When I looked later, my pockets were empty. It depicts a child's behavior and psychology very well on a snowy day. Ezra Jack Keats' first work won the Caldecott Medal.

Caldecott Award winning work. One winter morning, Peter woke up and looked out the window to see white snow piled up. So he quickly puts on his overcoat and goes outside. Peter walks here and there, making footsteps, and sometimes snoops around while older children play. Then he packs up his eyes, puts them in his pocket, and comes home. But later, I realized that my pockets were empty! This book shows very well a child's behavior and psychology on a snowy day.

Author: Ezra Jack Keats
1916~1983. He has a reputation as an artist who created his works by listening to the voice of the child within him. Ezra Jack Keats was born in the slums of Brooklyn, USA, to a Jewish family of Polish origin. He was the youngest of his three brothers, and it is said that he was sickly from a young age and spent a lot of time alone, using paintings as companions. He took his first steps as an illustrator after graduating from high school and by chance began drawing illustrations for magazines. After that, he mainly drew illustrations for magazines and books, and in 1962, he began to gain fame as a picture book writer when he published the first picture book, “Snowy Day,” written and illustrated by himself.
He won the Caldecott Award for 『Snowy Day』, and his other representative books include 『Peter's Chair』, 『Whistle』, 『Apartment No. 3』, 『Whistle』, and 『Letters』. He is credited with being the first to feature a black child in a children's book and using bold color collage techniques to vividly express the child's life and psychology.