Ezra Jack Keats never finished the autobiography he began writing late in life. After a career creating picture books for children, Keats—born Jacob Ezra Katz—had gone back in memory to the scrappy ...

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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 ...

Pet Show! by Ezra Jack Keats, first published in 1972, captures a smalltown simplicity amidst an urban landscape, as an African-American boy struggles with the decision of which pet to enter in the ...