![]() “As a tentative Peter stepped out into his first snowfall, confronting the relentless whiteness of his urban environment, his journey served as a metaphor of Keats’s own imperative to introduce blackness into a cultural milieu that saw little reason to include it.” (Oct. ![]() ![]() Nahson, curator at the Jewish Museum, writes that The Snowy Day reflected Keats’s interest in “rendering visible what has hitherto been invisible to his audience, be that an inner-city child, a message graffitied on a wall, or a dilapidated building.” Her essay joins one from historian/art critic Maurice Berger that makes abundantly clear the book’s societal importance. exhibition devoted to his work, which opens at New York City’s Jewish Museum in September. ![]() Keats graphic, color-block illustrations provide the. Read 3962 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Keats’s Caldecott-winning story about a boy’s wintertime exploration of his neighborhood turns 50 in 2012 this fascinating examination of Keats and his oeuvre, complete with 80 full-color reproductions, coincides with the first major U.S. It is a slice-of-life story of a boy, in an urban setting, as he explores his world after a snowfall. ![]()
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