Ezra Jack Keats Book Award
The Ezra Jack Keats Book Award is an annual U.S. literary award.
| Ezra Jack Keats book award | |
|---|---|
| Date | April |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Ezra Jack Keats Foundation |
| First awarded | 1985 |
| Last awarded | Active |
| Website | www |
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. [1][2]
Until 2011, the Award was presented jointly with the New York Public Library.[3] Since 2012, it is co-presented with the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi, in Hattiesburg.[4][5][6]
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
- 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)
- 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 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
- 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.
- 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
- School Library Journal: “Ezra Jack Keats Awards Announced”, February 20, 2014
- Publishers Weekly: “Ezra Jack Keats Awards Celebrated”, April 18, 2013
- Ezra Jack Keats Foundation: “About the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award”. Retrieved 2016-10-22,
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