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A Letter to Amy

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A Letter to Amy
AuthorEzra Jack Keats
IllustratorEzra Jack Keats
GenreChildren's picture book
PublisherViking Books (originally HarperCollins)
Publication date
1968
Publication placeUnited States
ISBN0-14-056442-X
OCLC165695
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A Letter to Amy is a 1968 children's picture book by American author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats.

Plot

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"Peter [from Keats' The Snowy Day] is having a birthday party, and he's asked all of his friends to come. But Amy is a special friend because she's a girl, so Peter decides to send her a special invitation. When he rushes out in a thunderstorm to mail it, he bumps smack into Amy herself and knocks her to the ground. Will she come to his party now?"[1]

Adaptations

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In 1970, Loretta Long narrated the story in a film adaptation from Weston Woods Studios.

References

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  1. ^ "A Letter to Amy". Ezra Jack Keats Foundation. 2018. Retrieved December 11, 2020.