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The Snowy Day

Peter, a Black boy, wakes up and he sees snow. He goes outside to play and takes a snow ball back home. The next morning the snow ball has melted but he goes back out to explore some more.
“The Snowy Day” is the first picture book with a Black main character to win a major ward, in 1963.

 

Text Copyright © Melinda Long
Illustrations Copyright © David Shannon
Used with permission of Author and Illustrator

  • Written by Ezra Jack Keats
  • Illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats
  • Published by Penguin Random House
  • Narrated by Sequoia Holmes
  • Running Time 00:04:17
  • Date of Filming December 2021
  • Written by Ezra Jack Keats
  • Illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats
  • Published by Penguin Random House
  • Narrated by Sequoia Holmes
  • Running Time 00:04:17
  • Narrator Sequoia Holmes
  • Position Shooting Guard
  • Team Panathinaikos BC
  • Nationality USA
  • Born June 13 1986
  • Height 6' 0" (185cm)