Ezra Jack Keats Book Award

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Ezra Jack Keats book award
DateApril
Country United States
Presented byEzra Jack Keats Foundation
First awarded1985
Last awardedActive
Website www.ezra-jack-keats.org/section/ezra-jack-keats-book-awards/

The Ezra Jack Keats Book Award is an annual U.S. literary award.

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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.

Winner

Ezra Jack Keats Book Award winners [7]
YearCategoryAuthorTitle
1986 Writer Valerie Flournoy The Patchwork Quilt
1987 Writer Juanita Havill Jamaica's Find
1989 Writer Yoriko Tsutsui Anna's Special Present
1991 Writer Angela Johnson Tell Me a Story, Mama
1993 Writer Faith Ringgold Tar Beach
1995 Writer Cari Best Taxi! Taxi!
1997 Writer Juan Felipe Herrera Calling the Doves (El Canto de las Palomas)
1999 Writer Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen Elizabeti's Doll
2000 Writer Soyung Pak Dear Juno
2001 Illustrator Bryan Collier Uptown
Writer D.B. Johnson Henry Hikes to Fitchburg
2002 Writer Deborah Wiles , illus. by Jerome Lagarrigue Freedom Summer
2003 Illustrator Sophie Blackall Ruby's Wish [8]
Writer Shirin Yim Bridges Ruby's Wish
2004 Illustrator Gabi Swiatkowska My Name Is Yoon [9]
Writer Jeron Ashford Frame Yesterday I Had the Blues
2005 Illustrator Ana Juan The Night Eater
Writer Janice N. Harrington Going North
2006 Illustrator Yunmee Kyong Silly Chicken
Writer Mary Ann Rodman My Best Friend
2007 Illustrator Kristen Balouch Mystery Bottle
Writer Kelly Cunnane For You Are a Kenyan Child
2008 Illustrator Jonathan Bean The Apple Pie that Papa Baked
Writer David Ezra Stein Leaves [10]
2009 Illustrator Shadra Strickland Bird
Writer Stian Hole Garmann's Summer
2010 Illustrator Taeeun Yoo Only a Witch Can Fly [11]
Writer Tonya Cherie Hegamin Most Loved in All the World [11]
2011 Illustrator Tao Nyeu Bunny Days [12]
Writer Laurel Croza I Know Here [12]
2012 Illustrator Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw Same, Same but Different
Writer Meg Medina Tía Isa Wants a Car [13]
2013 Illustrator Hyewon Yum Mom, It’s My First Day of Kindergarten! [14]
Writer Julie Fogliano And Then It’s Spring [14]
2014 Illustrator Christian Robinson Rain [15]
Writer Ame Dyckman Tea Party Rules [15]
2015 IllustratorChris HaughtonShh! We Have a Plan [16]
Writer Chieri Uegaki Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin [16]
2016 Illustrator Phoebe Wahl Sonya's Chicken
Writer Don Tate Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
2017 Illustrator Micha Archer Daniel Finds a Poem [17]
Writer Jeri Watts A Piece of Home
2018 Illustrator Michael Mahin Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters [18]
Writer Derrick Barnes Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut [18]
2019 Illustrator Oge Mora Thank you, Omu! [19] [20]
WriterJohn SullivanKitten and the Night Watchman [19] [20]
2020 Illustrator Ashleigh Corrin Layla’s Happiness [21]
Writer Sydney Smith Small in the City [21] [13]
2021 Illustrator Heidi Woodward Sheffield Brick by Brick [22] [23]
Writer Tricia Elam Walker Nana Akua Goes to School [22] [23]
2022 Illustrator Gracey Zhang Lala's Words [24] [25]
Writer Paul Harbridge Out into the Big Wide Lake [24] [25]
2023 Illustrator Doug Salati Hot Dog [26] [27]
Writer Kari Percival How To Say Hello to a Worm [26] [27]

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  3. ↑ Huffington Post Blog: “Bunnies in Washing Machines and Children Moving to New Places, This is What Award-Winning Children’s Books are Made Of” Archived 2016-10-23 at the Wayback Machine , July 26, 2011
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  5. ↑ Publishers Weekly: “Ezra Jack Keats Awards Celebrated” Archived 2016-11-19 at the Wayback Machine , April 18, 2013
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