Perhaps the surest way to blast the winter blues is to be reminded of the simple pleasures that a snowy day can provide. In Ezra Jack Keats鈥檚 The Snowy Day a boy wakes up to an exciting event: the first snow of winter. With uninhibited joy, he goes outside to explore the silent, snow-covered city. He makes footprints in a clean path, knocks snow from a tree鈥檚 branches, and builds a snowman and an angel. Keats won the Caldecott Medal in 1963 for the book鈥檚 striking cut-out illustrations. 鈥淭he Snowy Day鈥� also broke ground for featuring one of the first African-American protagonists in a picture book.
