![]() I had noticed Peter’s race, and I imagine my kids did too, but we never talked about it. What made The Snowy Day a groundbreaking “first” when it won the Caldecott in 1963, and what makes it noteworthy on our bookshelves as a white family almost sixty years later, is that Peter is Black. But Peter is a child who notices and reflects, which is much of what I love about this book, so I want to respond in kind, especially considering how loved this book has been-by us as a family, and as part of a wider readership. Why care? It wasn’t noticeable when I read right over it-and over and over it-to my oldest child. ![]() (Curiously, the cover image of the book is also Peter looking back at his footprints, but those are alternating and facing forward, evidence of ambulation.) But how could I have read over this so many times: The footprints in the picture are side-by-side, two-by-two. ![]()
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