By Javier C. Hernández In the first scene of “The Snowy Day,” a new opera based on the popular 1962 children’s book, a Black mother sings an aria as her young son, Peter, prepares to go ...

Now the company continues this trend with “The Snowy Day,” based on the timeless children’s story written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats. Set in a wintery cityscape, “The Snowy Day ...

Children in snow ... eight pages of supplemental material, including the magazine photos of a little boy that inspired Keats and a fan letter from poet Langston Hughes. "The Snowy Day and the ...

Ezra Jack Keats’ beloved 1962 book, “The Snowy Day,” is credited as the first mass-market children’s storybook to feature a black protagonist — a preschooler named Peter joyfully ...

He was the star in Ezra Jack Keats’ classic children’s picture book, “The Snowy Day,” and his only mission was to play in the snow in his Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood. “The Snowy Day ...