Books with author Ezra Jack Keats

With a warm sense of wonder, this beloved tale captures the magic and joy of a city kid's day in the snow. When Peter wakes up one winter morning, he sees it immediately. Snow! Everything outside his window is covered—and transformed—by new-fallen snow. What a day for adventure! Just after breakfast, Peter bundles up in his puffy red snowsuit and races outside. Cars are covered! Streets are covered! There's barely a path to walk, but there's plenty of room for discovery. Peter delights in every footprint he tracks, every tree branch he rattles, every snow angel he makes. How will this young explorer end his day? Bright colors, soft illustrations, and a simple but remarkable sense of childhood amazement make this quiet classic a rich, relatable story.

When the other kids make fun of Louie and call his father "the junkman," his dad explains that the so-called junk he loves "can take you right out of this world" with a little imagination. So Louie builds the spaceship Imagination I and blasts off into his own space odyssey. Reissued just in time for the fortieth anniversary of the first lunar landing, this fantastical Keats adventure celebrates the power of imagination.

Can a puppy be a kitten? This puppy thinks he is. As he plays with four kittens, he tumbles and stumbles, thumps and slurps, spills and falls. Then his mother arrives. Will the five new friends be able to play again? Award-winning author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats's appealing illustrations will have readers purring with contentment. "A visually delightful book." (The Horn Book)