![]() ![]() ![]() It won the Caldecott Medal, given to outstanding picture books. "But was he trying to make a cause book, was he trying to make a point? No."īut The Snowy Day became a huge hit. "He said, well, all the books he had ever illustrated, there had never been a child of color, and they're out there - they should be in the books, too," Pope says. But Pope says Keats - who was white - wasn't necessarily trying to make a statement about race when he created Peter. Peter was among the first non-caricatured African-Americans to be featured in a major children's book. "The point is that this is a beautiful book about a child's encounter with snow, and the wonder of it," Pope says. ![]() Pope is the executive director of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation. It wasn't the point," Deborah Pope tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz. And, though this is never mentioned in the text, Peter is African-American. Peter has a red snowsuit, a stick just right for knocking snow off of trees, and a snowball in his pocket. Peter is the hero of the classic children's book by Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day, which turns 50 this year. ![]() One morning many years ago, a little boy in Brooklyn named Peter woke up to an amazing sight: fresh snow. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Snowy Day Subtitle 50th Anniversary Edition Author Ezra Jack Keats ![]()
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Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668). ![]() Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, Thomas Hobbes ![]() ![]() “At 24, I fell deeply in love with someone who was part of all this and that was all found out and he was chucked out and then he was killed. That was ‘help.’”Ī few other revelations involve a mystery man with whom Diana was infatuated with. ![]() ![]() She once sought comfort from the Queen, “So I went to the top lady and said: ‘I don’t know what I should do.’ She said: ‘I don’t know what you should do.’ And that was it. These tapes were recorded by Diana’s public speaking teacher Peter Settelen where Diana goes on to describe heart-wrenching ways she tried to cope with her situation. ![]() In Diana: In Her Own Words, a new documentary on the late Princess of Wales, tapes reveal how Diana called the Queen for help when she realized she was in a “loveless marriage.” ![]() ![]() Through interactions with her father, her best friend Will, and some of the other people in Naomi's life, she learns who she was prior to the accident. At the hospital, Naomi finds out the boy's name is James, but he is not really her boyfriend. The first thing Naomi sees when she wakes up after her fall is a handsome young man that is claiming to be her boyfriend as they wheel her into the ambulance. The story slowly reveals how Naomi has her pick of traumatic events to choose from. 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