Biographies
Children’s Illustrators: Ezra Jack Keats, by Jill C. Wheeler. ABDO Publishing Co., 2005
Children’s Literature Review, Vol. 35, pp. 82-143. Gale Research, Inc., 1995
Ezra Jack Keats, Artist and Picture Book Maker, by Brian Alderson. Pelican Press, 1994
Ezra Jack Keats: A Biography with Illustrations, by Dean Engel and Florence Freedman. Silver Moon Press, 1995
A Memory, by Martin Pope, President of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation
A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of “The Snowy Day,” by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Lou Fancher and Steve Johnson. Viking, 2016
The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats, by Claudia J. Nahson (with Maurice Berger and Emily Casden), Yale University Press, 2011
Reading
Prizing Children’s Literature: The Cultural Politics of Children’s Book Awards, edited by Kenneth B. Kidd and Joseph T. Thomas, Jr., Routledge Press, Chapter 8: Peter’s Legacy: The Ezra Jack Keats Book Award, November 10, 2016
A Nation of Neighborhoods: Imagining, Cities, Communities and Democracy in Postwar America, by Benjamin Looker, Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago Press, Chapter 6: Brilliant Corners: Representing the Inner City, from Outside and from Within, 2015
Celebrate Ezra Jack Keats, by Carolyn S. Brodie. School Library Media Activities Monthly, Vol. 19, Issue 7, 2003
Diverse Books and Bullying, by Dr. Deborah Pope Story Monsters Ink. January 2019
The Enduring Charm of Children’s Books, by Barbara Elleman. American Libraries, Vol. 26, Issue 7, 1995
The Enduring Footprints of Peter, Ezra Jack Keats, and The Snowy Day, by Kathleen T. Horning, The Horn Book, July 2016
From Sambo to Stevie: African-Americans in Picture Books, by Emily Casden. The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats, Yale University Press, 2011
John Henry: Then and Now, by W. Nikola-Lisa. African American Review, Vol. 32, Issue 1, 1998
Letters, Twigs, Hats, and Peter’s Chair: Object Play in the Picture Books of Ezra Jack Keats, by W.
Literature and Art Through Our Eyes: The African American Children, by Patrice Flynn, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute 1995
Websites
Keats Archive: housed in the De Grummond Children’s Literature Collection, University of Southern Mississippi: the entire literary estate of Ezra Jack Keats, including original manuscripts, art, correspondence and awards
One More Story
Online library of award-winning children’s books
TeachersPayTeachers.com
An online marketplace for original educational resources, many free and low-cost
TeachingBooks.net
A guide to resources for the Ezra Jack Keats Books and Book Award winners
“The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats”: The Jewish Museum