Happy birthday, John Keats. The Romantic poet best known for his odes -- “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “Ode on Indolence,” “Ode on Melancholy,” “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode to ...

As 2016 winds down to a chilly close, it’s time to say “Happy 100th Birthday” to Ezra Jack Keats, the celebrated author of “The Snowy Day.” The classic book for children, published more ...

After six years of sporadic writing, Keats has finished the first third of "The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six," a collection of fables about a pack of anonymous saints who walk ...

It also was quietly groundbreaking, both as what is widely considered the first picture book to star a black child and in its use of collage, for which Keats won the 1963 Caldecott Medal.

What a pleasure these days to come across a book that unabashedly ... No such worry today: Although Keats didn’t make it far beyond his 25th birthday and there isn’t all that much life ...

Robert Pinsky reviews Lucasta Miller’s “Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph.” By Robert Pinsky When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an ...

Ezra Jack Keats never finished the autobiography he began writing late in life. After a career creating picture books for children, Keats—born Jacob Ezra Katz—had gone back in memory to the ...

The 2015 awards ceremony will be held on April 9th during the Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival at The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. The winners receive a gold medallion ...

"A Poem for Peter," by Andrea Davis Pinkney, pays tribute to the celebrated author of "The Snowy Day." As 2016 winds down to a chilly close, it’s time to say “Happy 100th Birthday” to Ezra ...