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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: The Real-Life Kid Who Inspired Ezra Jack Keats’ “The Snowy Day”
Description: Today in 1940, Life Magazine published a series of photos of a little boy in Liberty County, Georgia - photos that, two decades later, would inspire one of the most famous picture books ever published. Plus: this Saturday in South Bend, Indiana, it’s the Donut & Beer Festival. The Enduring Footprints of Peter, Ezra Jack Keats, and The Snowy Day (The Horn Book)Donut & Beer Festival Help inspire our future stories as a backer on Patreon