![]() ![]() ![]() Yet we remember him today almost exclusively for The Snowy Day (1962) and its reputation in the history of children's literature: the first mainstream and award-winning picture book to depict a protagonist of color and its subsequent controversial, complicated reception history. ![]() The Snowy Day is not the only book Ezra Jack Keats ever wrote.Īlthough Keats was forty-four years old when he authored his first picture book, My Dog Is Lost (1960), and he would die twenty-three years later at age sixty-seven, he was a prolific artist, writing and illustrating twenty-three children's books and providing illustrations for many others. Ezra Jack Keats, unpublished "Autobiography" ![]()
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