The little boy in the red snowsuit from the 1962 children’s picture book The Snowy Day by American author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats. In the story, a boy named Peter explores his New York neighborhood after the first snowfall. Keats’s inspiration for Peter came from photos of a little black boy published in a Life magazine photo article from 1940.
Note: The Snowy Day turns 50 this year.
