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Ezra Jack Keats (né Jacob Ezra Katz; March 11, 1916 - May 6, 1983) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He is best known for The Snowy Day , which won the 1963 Caldecott Medal and is considered one of the most important American books of the 20th century.
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (sometimes shortened to T&R Day) (NDTR; French: Journée nationale de la vérité et de la réconciliation), originally and still colloquially known as Orange Shirt Day (French: Jour du chandail orange), [1] is a Canadian day of memorial to recognize the atrocities and multi-generational effects of the Canadian Indian residential school system. [2]
Tribal members were giving out orange T-shirts, featuring pictures of a Native American child dressed in regalia, until 5 p.m. on Friday at the government center.
The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation created the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award in 1985, and the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award was established in 2001. [31] The New York Public Library named The Snowy Day as one of its Books of the Century and included it in its exhibition on this subject which ran from May 1995 to July 1996. [33]
Sep. 30—TRAVERSE CITY — The national Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools known as Orange Shirt Day is observed today to honor survivors and remember those who did not make it back ...
Phyllis Webstad (née Jack; born July 13, 1967) is a Northern Secwepemc (Shuswap) author and activist from the Stswecem'c Xgat'tem First Nation, [note 1] and the creator of Orange Shirt Day, a day of remembrance marked in Canada later instated as the public holiday of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Keats's Neighborhood is a 2002 children's picture book collecting several works by American author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats. [1] The collection brings together nine of his stories, including the 1963 Caldecott Medal -winning book The Snowy Day , Caldecott Honor book Goggles! and Peter's Chair .
Peter's Chair is the third in a series of books by Keats, following the 1963 Caldecott Medal winner The Snowy Day (1962) and Whistle for Willie (1964), that follow an African American boy named Peter throughout his childhood. The book, edited by Ursula Nordstrom, is the first in the series to be published by Harper. [1]