Description
Becoming Ezra Jack Keats offers the first complete biography of acclaimed children's author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983) intended for adult readers. Drawing extensively from his unpublished autobiography and letters, Becoming Ezra Jack Keats covers the breadth of Keats's life, taking readers through his early years as the child of immigrant parents, his introduction to illustration and writing, and the full arc of his remarkable career.
Beyond a standard biography, this volume presents a time capsule of the political, social, and economic issues evolving during the span of Keats's lifetime. It also addresses his trailblazing commitment to representation and diversity, most notably in his work The Snowy Day, which won the Caldecott Medal as the first full-color picture book to feature a Black child as the protagonist. Keats far surpassed his father's prediction that he would be a starving artist. Instead, as shown in Becoming Ezra Jack Keats, he is now regarded as one of the most influential figures in children's literature, having published twenty-two books translated into sixteen languages, all featuring the diversity he saw in the children outside the window of his Brooklyn studio.
About the Author
Virginia McGee Butler is a writer and early childhood educator. Her research at the University of Southern Mississippi's de Grummond Children's Literature Collection has been used in The Snowy Day fiftieth-anniversary edition and in other scholarly works on Keats.
Book Information
ISBN 9781496844743
Author Virginia McGee Butler
Format Hardback
Page Count 277
Imprint University Press of Mississippi
Publisher University Press of Mississippi
Weight(grams) 272g
Beyond a standard biography, this volume presents a time capsule of the political, social, and economic issues evolving during the span of Keats's lifetime. It also addresses his trailblazing commitment to representation and diversity, most notably in his work The Snowy Day, which won the Caldecott Medal as the first full-color picture book to feature a Black child as the protagonist. Keats far surpassed his father's prediction that he would be a starving artist. Instead, as shown in Becoming Ezra Jack Keats, he is now regarded as one of the most influential figures in children's literature, having published twenty-two books translated into sixteen languages, all featuring the diversity he saw in the children outside the window of his Brooklyn studio.
About the Author
Virginia McGee Butler is a writer and early childhood educator. Her research at the University of Southern Mississippi's de Grummond Children's Literature Collection has been used in The Snowy Day fiftieth-anniversary edition and in other scholarly works on Keats.
Book Information
ISBN 9781496844743
Author Virginia McGee Butler
Format Hardback
Page Count 277
Imprint University Press of Mississippi
Publisher University Press of Mississippi
Weight(grams) 272g
