Ezra Jack Keats
Keats is best known for introducing multiculturalism into mainstream American children's literature. He was one of the first children’s book authors in the English-speaking world to use an urban setting for his stories, and he developed the use of collage as a medium for illustration.
The book featuring Peter, The Snowy Day, received the prestigious Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished picture book for children in 1963.
It features a little boy named Peter exploring his neighborhood after the first snowfall of the season.
The inspiration for Peter came from a Life magazine photo article from 1940, and Keats' desire to have minority children of New York as central characters in his stories. Peter appears in six more books growing from a small boy in The Snowy Day to pre-adolescence in Letter to Amy.
The Snowy Day
Author Ezra Jack Keats
Illustrator Ezra Jack Keats
Country United States
Genre(s) Children's picture book
Publication date 1962
ISBN
0-14-050182
http://www.ezra-jack-keats.org/characters/book-thesnowyday.html
This website http://www.ezra-jack-keats.org/characters/book-thesnowyday.html has some good teacher resources to use for activities to go with The Snowy Day.
Robert Munsch-
Official website for Robert Munsch is http://www.robertmunsch.com/
"I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, My baby you'll be."This is the quiet song a mother sings to her newborn son as she gently rocks him back and forth -- he is so sweet and quiet, so good. As the boy passes through the Terrible Twos, the Picky Preteens and Awkward Adolesence, he is not always sweet or quiet or good. He's often just the opposite. Even so, his mother sometimes sneaks into his room and rocks him, no matter big he gets, and sings him the same song.
I tried putting the picture of the books but they wouldn't copy and paste like they did on word.
Two very good books.
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I love your blog! You are doing a great job with the author profile. Try and post some pictures of the various books as well as hyperling the websites so that I am able to visit them form your blog.
ReplyDeleteI typed this up on word and was able to put a picture but when I copied and pasted it to the blog the picture would not come out. I put websites so everyone can visit them to see the books.
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