City streets, sidewalks, stoops - everything that I held so dear."Īs she worked on the biography, Pinkney learned that Keats was also a city kid, the child of immigrants who fled anti-Semitism in Poland. "And here was this book that made my life, my experience, valid. "Up to that point, there were many picture books but they were in rural settings," she says. When Pinkney was asked to write a book about Keats, she says she jumped at the chance "like a kid on a sled." The Snowy Day was her favorite book as a child she says it brought her comfort to see her own life reflected on the page. Now, Pinkney pays homage to Keats in a new book called A Poem for Peter, and there is an animated, Snowy Day special streaming on Amazon. The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats would go on to win a Caldecott Medal. More than 50 years ago, Peter - an African-American boy exploring his neighborhood after a snowstorm - broke the color barrier in mainstream children's publishing. "I loved that book - it was like a pillow to me," she says. Author Andrea Davis Pinkney used to sleep with a copy of The Snowy Day.
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