Ezra Jack Keats
Writing
Biography
Ezra Jack Keats was an award-winning author and illustrator of books for children. He is best known for The Snowy Day, about a little boy playing in the snow. Many of Ezra’s stories are about a group of friends growing up in the city. The neighborhood they live in looks like the streets where Ezra grew up in Brooklyn, New York.
Known For
Two boys discover a pair of lensless motorcycle goggles, and have to outsmart some older boys before they can have fun with their new treasure.
Goggles!
Based on the award-winning book by Ezra Jack Keats. Peter goes on a magical, snowy walk to his Nana's house to bring home their Christmas Eve dinner.
The Snowy Day
For Peter, learning to whistle means being able to call his dog, Willie, and being a bit closer to those two magic words: grown-up.
Whistle for Willie
Archie wants to enter his cat in the neighborhood pet show, but the cat has vanished! What will he do?
Pet Show!
A small boy's enchantment with a city's snowfall has him making snow angels and snowballs, sliding down snow mountains - and looking forward to going outside again.
The Snowy Day
Written and Illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats; Narrated by Charles Turner Louie moves to a new neighborhood and he is lonely without his friends, so he enters a magical world of imagination and flies back to his old home.
The Trip
Narrated by Charles Turner One rainy day, Sam hears the sad sounds of a harmonica. He searches the building to find the source and meets a new friend.
Apt. 3
From Worldcat: A young boy is lonely in his new neighborhood until he converts a shoebox into a magic diorama and sees his old friends trick-or-treating. Adapted from the story of the same title by Ezra Jack Keats. For elementary grades.
The Trip
Narrated by Loretta Long A little sister means big trouble for Peter -- first his parents paint his cradle pink, and then they paint his crib! But he won't let them paint his chair!