The Snowy Day

Summary

A young boy named Peter wakes to a city blanketed in fresh snow and spends the day making tracks, knocking snow from trees, and saving a snowball in his pocket. Ezra Jack Keats builds the pages from vivid collage and cut paper, setting Peter's red snowsuit against soft urban whites and blues. The book captures the quiet wonder of a child's winter day and broke ground as one of the first major American picture books to feature a Black child as its hero.