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, New York by author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats. Ezra Jack Keats Foundation: “A History of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation” . Retrieved 2016-10-22.GuideStar: “Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, Inc.” . Retrieved 2016-10-22.
Until 2011, the Award was presented jointly with the New York Public Library.Huffington Post Blog: “Bunnies in Washing Machines and Children Moving to New Places, This is What Award-Winning Children’s Books are Made Of” , July 26, 2011 Since 2012, it is co-presented with the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi, in Hattiesburg.School Library Journal: “Ezra Jack Keats Awards Announced” , February 20, 2014Publishers Weekly: “Ezra Jack Keats Awards Celebrated” , April 18, 2013Ezra 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.
Winner +Ezra Jack Keats Book Award winnersYearCategoryAuthorTitle1986Writer1987WriterJamaica's Find1989WriterAnna's Special Present1991WriterTell Me a Story, Mama1993WriterTar Beach1995WriterTaxi! Taxi!1997WriterCalling the Doves (El Canto de las Palomas)1999WriterElizabeti's Doll2000WriterDear Juno2001IllustratorUptownWriterHenry Hikes to Fitchburg2002Writer, illus. by Jerome Lagarrigue Freedom Summer2003IllustratorRuby's WishWriter Ruby's Wish2004IllustratorMy Name Is YoonWriterYesterday I Had the Blues2005IllustratorWriterGoing North2006IllustratorSilly ChickenWriterMy Best Friend2007IllustratorMystery BottleWriterFor You Are a Kenyan Child2008IllustratorWriterLeaves2009IllustratorBirdWriterGarmann's Summer2010IllustratorOnly a Witch Can FlyWriterMost Loved in All the World2011IllustratorBunny DaysWriterI Know Here2012IllustratorSame, Same but DifferentWriterTía Isa Wants a Car2013IllustratorMom, It’s My First Day of Kindergarten!WriterAnd Then It’s Spring2014IllustratorRainWriterTea Party Rules2015IllustratorShh! We Have a PlanWriterHana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin2016IllustratorSonya's ChickenWriterPoet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton2017IllustratorDaniel Finds a PoemWriter2018IllustratorMuddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy WatersWriterCrown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut2019IllustratorThank you, Omu!WriterKitten and the Night Watchman2020IllustratorLayla’s HappinessWriterSmall in the City2021IllustratorBrick by BrickWriterNana Akua Goes to School2022IllustratorLala's Words WriterOut into the Big Wide Lake2023IllustratorHot DogWriterHow To Say Hello to a Worm2024IllustratorThe Only Way to Make BreadEzra Jack Keats Award Winners https://www.ejkf.org/2024-ejk-award-winners/ Retrieved 23 Jan 2025.WriterNell Plants a TreeEzra Jack Keats Award Winners https://www.ejkf.org/2024-ejk-award-winners/ Retrieved 23 Jan 2025.
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Official website