Talk:The Snowy Day

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 25 September 2019 and 9 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): User:Kjosowski. Peer reviewers: Mgrone, Scottdirkb, Maureensq19, Tobiascharis, Jgrant89.

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Wiki Education assignment: ENGL 273 - Children's Literature

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 13 January 2022 and 14 May 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Jis39 (article contribs).

I intend to edit this Wikipedia article because I believe it is missing key content on The Snowy Day and could be reorganized. Additionally many of the claims in this article are uncited. First, I hope to expand the lead section because it is currently only three sentences and does not follow Wikipedia's guidelines of a clear lead section that outlines the rest of the article. I next wanted to add content to the "About the Author" section because it is missing key biographical information on Keats and his writing career. I also want to add content to the "History of the Snowy Day" section because it is missing how Keats got his inspiration for the book, information that is readily available from various published sources. After, I thought I would add an "Illustrations" section and an "Analysis" section because I was surprised the article contained no photos of the book's illustrations and scant information on them, as well as hardly any information on the book topic's notability as representing an African-American boy in the 1960s. I think it is also important to add a "Reception" section because the article is missing the public's reception of the book at the time it was published. I believe that adding these changes will allow the article to have a clearer structure and contain more important information on the book. I also found various sources from scholarly journals, newspapers, and magazines published both from the present day and also from the 1960s when the book was published which is in line with Wikipedia's guidelines of using reliable sources. I also hope to use some of these sources to substantiate some of the existing claims that are missing citations in the article. I invite you to look at my bibliography that I have so far https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jis39/The_Snowy_Day/Bibliography Jis39 (talk) 14:25, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Since The Snowy Day is a picture book whose illustrations are recognized as helping to pave the way for more inclusivity in children's literature, a detailed analysis of its images would be useful to include. En5678! (talk) 17:41, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

–Suggestion for edits– Add how Keats first got the idea for a Black main character from a magazine clipping that he had hung on his wall and would repeatedly look at. ^[1]Ial21 (talk) 14:35, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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^ Ezra Jack Keats Foundation

[1] Ezra Jack Keats Foundation

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