January #SharpSchu Book Club
Thursday, January 26 | 8:00 PM CST / 9:00 PM EST
A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day by Andrea Davis Pinkney; illustrated by Lou Fancher & Steve Johnson
8:00-8:15 CST: We will discuss A Poem for Peter.
8:15-8:30 CST: Andrea Davis Pinkney will answer our questions.
For more than two decades, Ezra had kept pinned to his wall a series of photographs of an adorable African American child. In Keats’s hands, the boy morphed into Peter, a boy in a red snowsuit, out enjoying the pristine snow; the book became The Snowy Day, winner of the Caldecott Medal, the first mainstream book to feature an African American child. It was also the first of many books featuring Peter and the children of his — and Keats’s — neighborhood.
Andrea Davis Pinkney’s lyrical narrative tells the inspiring story of a boy who pursued a dream, and who, in turn, inspired generations of other dreamers.
The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary by Laura Shovan
8:30-8:45 PM CST: We will discuss Laura Shovan's The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary.
8:45-9:00 PM CST: Laura Shovan will answer our questions.
Eighteen kids,
one year of poems,
one school set to close.
Two yellow bulldozers
crouched outside,
ready to eat the building
in one greedy gulp.
But look out, bulldozers.
Ms. Hill’s fifth-grade class
has plans for you.
They’re going to speak up
and work together
to save their school