Ezra jack keats

The New York Public Library published a list of the most checked-out books of all time to celebrate its 125th year of existence. At the top of the list is ‘The Snowy Day’ about a boy enjoying the snowfall. It's been checked-out a whopping 485,583 times!

Reproduced with permission of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation from "Whistle for Willie " (1964) Good news for lovers of Ezra Jack Keat...

A Letter to Amy Written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats Harper & Row, 1968 www.theartofchildrenspicturebooks.blogspot.com

Ezra Jack Keats

Peter is well aware that there is a new baby in the house. His mother shushes him when he makes his tower of blocks fall. And he's also well aware that the new baby's a girl. For everything that used to be Peter's has been painted pink! His old cradle is pink, his old crib is pink, and he discovers his father is in the middle of covering his old blue high chair in pink paint. Finally, he discovers his old chair that has not yet been touched: "They didn't paint that yet," Peter shouts…

Presenting some of our favorite wintry images for this holiday season . . . John Leech - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, 1843 Denver Gillen - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer by Robert L. May, 1939 Ruth Gannett - Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, 1946 Jean Charlot - Two Little Trains by Margaret Wise Brown, 1949 Crockett Johnson - Harold at the North Pole, 1957 Carl Hanser - Das Hexen-Einmal-Eins, 1998 Robin Mitchell and Ruth Steedman - Snowy and Chinook, 2005 Nickolaj Tyrsa - The…