The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keats's obvious talent, his father worried that Ezra's dream of being an artist was an unrealistic one. But Ezra was determined. By high school he was winning prizes and scholarships. Later, jobs followed with the WPA (Works Progress Administration) and Marvel comics. But it was...

After the frog turns into a prince, he and the Princess do not live happily ever after and the Prince decides to look for a witch to help him remedy the situation

When he cannot sleep, a little boy imagines himself on a nighttime journey across the sky where he can run and dance with star constellations

As the town goes to sleep, a snowstorm begins, and the man who drives the snowplow goes to work, keeping the streets clear throughout the night

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow a family of bears from one spring to the next. Includes facts about bears

A simple retelling of the birth of Jesus with emphasis on the quiet time before the arrival of the shepherds, angels, and kings

A cat describes the ways in which it enjoys spending the day and night

A young boy finds a salamander and thinks of the many things he can do to make a perfect home for it