Using paint and collage he creates a wintery city which is also warm with color and with Peter's playfulness. Keats fills the pages with simple, honest images and leads the viewer to imagine the spaces beyond the pages. There is a quietness about the book which evokes that sudden quiet that comes over a city right after a snowfall. The story is quite moving in it's depiction of the simple joys of new-fallen snow.
The Snowy Day was the first full-color picture book to feature a black child and made a big splash in the world of children's books. Afraid the snow won't last, Peter tries to keep a snowball in his pocket until the next day. He slides down a snow bank in his red snow suit, makes tracks through the snow, makes snow angels, and knocks snow from a tree onto his head. In this Caldecott Medal winner, a little African-American boy experiences the snow in the city spending the day outside playing.
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