We've got something special for y'all this week. This is a feed drop from our friends at the

Brooklyn Public Library from their podcast Borrowed and Returned, which is a series that examines

what they're reading public borrowed in the past and what they're all reading right now. In

conversations with library workers, authors, and readers across the country, the folks at

Brooklyn Public Library are

returning to the books that changed us and that changed America too. This episode is about the

snowy day, which wasn't the first picture book to feature a black child as its protagonist,

but it's probably the most visible. When it came out in 1962, it challenged the publishing

industry to champion books that depicted kids

of color. Today, we find ourselves in a moment not so different from the one that Ezra Jack

Keats was in when he sat down to create the snowy day. We are once again fighting for the right

to let kids read the books they love, and we're still reminding each other that the characters

kids see in those books really matter. Here it is. We hope you'll

enjoy this episode of Borrowed and Returned about the Snowy Day. Thanks again to our friends

at the Brooklyn Public Library. Snowy Day is one of those books that when people ask me if

there's a perfect picture book, then I say it's the snowy day.

This is Lee Fox, a children's librarian at Brooklyn Public Library.

We met up with her earlier this year on an actual snowy day in Brooklyn

right before she was going to host a Storytime.

Storytimes can be a raucous experience on any day,

and it was even more exuberant on this particular day

because the book Lee was going to read was the show-stopping crowd-pleaser,

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