![]() ![]() Keats’s experience living in tenement housing surrounded by children of different cultures and ethnicities can be seen in his books. Following his service in World War II, he changed his last name from Katz to Keats to avoid anti-semitism and to find work in the book publishing industry. ![]() Keats, born Jacob (Jack) Ezra Katz, grew up in a poor Jewish family with immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York. With a friend, he ventures outside again. The next day, he wakes up to tons more falling snow. Before he goes to bed, Peter is sad to discover the snowball has melted. He returns home with a snowball stashed in his pocket. Peter is too young to join a snowball fight with older kids, so he makes a snowman and snow angels and slides down a hill. In his bright red snowsuit, he goes outside and makes footprints and trails through the snow. Peter, The Snowy Day's protagonist, wakes up to the season’s first snowfall. ![]()
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