A young child's enjoyment of a snowy day is beautifully captured in this original collage illustration from The Snowy Day, written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats (Viking, 1962). This illustration is part of the Ezra Jack Keats Collection that is housed at the de Grummond Children's Literature Research Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. It includes original illustrations, typescripts, dummies, and related materials for 36 books, as well as correspondence, photographs, and other personal papers. The de Grummond Collection, begun in 1966, focuses on American and British childrens's literature, historical as well as contemporary.