The Ezra Jack Keats Book Award is an annual U.S.
literary award.
At the Ezra Jack Keats Book Awards Ceremony every April, the
Ezra Jack Keats Foundation presents the New Writer Award (since 1985) and New Illustrator Award (since 2001) to an author and an illustrator who are at an early stage of their career. An Honor Books category was added in 2012.
The
nonprofit Ezra Jack Keats Foundation was established in 1964 in
Brooklyn
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, New York by author and illustrator
Ezra Jack Keats
Ezra Jack Keats (né Jacob Ezra Katz; March 11, 1916 – May 6, 1983) was an American people, American writer and illustrator of children's books. He won the 1963 Caldecott Medal for illustrating ''The Snowy Day'', which he also wrote. Keats wr ...
.
Until 2011, the Award was presented jointly with the New York Public Library. Since 2012, it is co-presented with the
de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the
University of Southern Mississippi
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, in
Hattiesburg
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.
[Ezra Jack Keats Foundation]
“About the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award”
Retrieved 2016-10-22,
Award winners include
Stian Hole, ''Garmann's Summer'' in 2009,
Meg Medina, ''
Tía Isa Wants a Car'' in 2012 and
Don Tate, ''The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton'' in 2016.
Recipients
* ''Nana Akua Goes to School'' by Tricia Elam Walker (2021 Writer Award)
* ''Brick by Brick'' by Heidi Woodward Sheffield (2021 Illustrator Award)
* ''Small in the City'' by Sydney Smith (2020 Writer Award)
* ''Layla’s Happiness'' by Ashleigh Corrin (2020 Illustrator Award)
* ''Kitten and the Night Watchman'' by John Sullivan (2019 Writer Award)
* ''Thank you, Omu!'' by
Oge Mora (2019 Illustrator Award)
* ''Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut'' by Derrick Barnes (2018 Writer Award)
* ''Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters'' by Michael Mahin (2018 Illustrator Award)
* ''A Piece of Home ''by
Jeri Watts (2017 Writer Award)
* ''Daniel Finds a Poem'' by Micha Archer (2017 Illustrator Award)
* ''Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton'' by Don Tate (2016 Writer Award)
* ''Sonya's Chicken'' by Phoebe Wahl (2016 Illustrator Award)
* ''Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin'' by Chieri Uegaki (2015 Writer Award)
* ''Shh! We Have a Plan'' by Chris Haughton (2015 Illustrator Award)
* ''Tea Party Rules'' by Ame Dyckman (2014 Writer Award)
* ''Rain'' by Christian Robinson (2014 Illustrator Award)
* ''And Then It’s Spring'' by Julie Fogliano (2013 Writer Award)
* ''Mom, It’s My First Day of Kindergarten!'' by Hyewon Yum (2013 Illustrator Award)
* ''
Tía Isa Wants a Car'' by Meg Medina (2012 Writer Award)
* ''Same, Same but Different'' by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw (2012 Illustrator Award)
* ''I Know Here'' by Laurel Croza (2011 Writer Award)
* ''Bunny Days'' by Tao Nyeu (2011 Illustrator Award)
* ''Most Loved in All the World'' by Tonya Cherie Hegamin (2010 Writer Award)
* ''Only a Witch Can Fly'' by Taeeun Yoo (2010 Illustrator Award)
* ''Garmann's Summer'' by Stian Hole (2009 Writer Award)
* ''
Bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweig ...
'' by Shadra Strickland (2009 Illustrator Award)
* ''Leaves'' by David Ezra Stein (2008 Writer Award)
* ''The Apple Pie that Papa Baked'' by Jonathan Bean (2008 Illustrator Award)
* ''For You Are a Kenyan Child'' by Kelly Cunnane (2007 Writer Award)
* ''Mystery Bottle'' by Kristen Balouch (2007 Illustrator Award)
* ''My Best Friend'' by Mary Ann Rodman (2006 Writer Award)
* ''Silly Chicken'' by Yunmee Kyong (2006 Illustrator Award)
* ''Going North'' by Janice N. Harrington (2005 Writer Award)
* ''The Night Eater'' by Ana Juan (2005 Illustrator Award)
* ''Yesterday I Had the Blues'' by Jeron Ashford Frame (2004 Writer Award)
* ''My Name Is Yoon'' by Gabi Swiatkowska (2004 Illustrator Award)
* ''Ruby's Wish'' by Shirin Yim Bridges and Sophie Blackall (2003 Writer Award, Illustrator Award)
* ''Freedom Summer'' by Deborah Wiles and Jerome Lagarrigue (2002 Writer Award, Illustrator Award)
* ''Henry Hikes to Fitchburg'' by D.B. Johnson (2001 Writer Award)
* ''Uptown'' by Bryan Collier (2001 Illustrator Award)
* ''Dear Juno'' by Soyung Pak (2000 Writer Award)
* ''Elizabeti's Doll'' by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen (1999 Writer Award)
* ''Calling the Doves (El Canto de las Palomas)'' by Juan Felipe Herrera (1997 Writer Award)
* ''Taxi! Taxi!'' by Cari Best (1995 Writer Award)
* ''Tar Beach'' by Faith Ringgold (1993 Writer Award)
* ''Tell Me a Story, Mama'' by Angela Johnson (1991 Writer Award)
* ''Anna's Special Present'' by Yoriko Tsutsui (1989 Writer Award)
* ''Jamaica's Find'' by Juanita Havill (1987 Writer Award)
* ''The Patchwork Quilt'' by Valerie Flournoy (1986 Writer Award)
References
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Awards established in 1985
Awards established in 2001
1985 establishments in the United States
Children's literary awards