The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.
Ezra Jack Keats
Chicago Public Library
Age 5 & up. Originally published: 1962. Ezra Jack Keats was born Jacob Ezra Katz in Brooklyn, New York on March 11, 1916. He was a mural painter for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) for three years before taking a job as a comic book illustrator. During World War II, he joined the United States Air Corp and was a camouflage pattern designer. After the war, he changed his name to make his Jewish heritage less noticeable.
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