The New York Public Library, the second largest in the US after the Library of Congress, has released its list of the Top 10 checkouts of all time. Topping it is 'The Snowy Day' by Ezra Jack Keats.
Since it was founded more than a century go, the New York Public Library has seen millions of books checked in and out. But the book that's been checked out the most is a simple story about a child enjoying his city's first snowfall.
The library, the second largest in the US after the Library of Congress, has released its list of the Top 10 checkouts of all time. Topping it is"The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats. That picture book has been borrowed a whopping 485,584 times since it was published in 1962.The story -- about an African American boy named Peter -- is"one of the earliest examples of diversity in children's books," the library said.
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