This Jewish author/illustrator, born in Brooklyn in 1916 to Polish immigrants, knew what discrimination felt like, and he thought stories for children should represent kids who didn't often see themselves in books. His Caldecott-winning collage style books were among the first to feature an African-American main chatacter, Peter, who found simple joys in his urban neighborhood. This is Ezra Jack Keats, and his most famous book is The Snowy Day, published in 1962.
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