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
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Ezra Jack Keats Foundation was established in 1964 in
Brooklyn
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, New York by author and illustrator
Ezra Jack Keats.
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
Meg Medina is an American children’s book author of Cuban descent whose books celebrate Latino culture and the lives of young people. She served as th2023 – 2024 National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature Medina is the recipient of t ...
, ''
Tía Isa Wants a Car
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'' in 2012 and
Don Tate, ''The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton'' in 2016.
Winner
See also
References
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External links
Official website
Awards established in 1985
Awards established in 2001
1985 establishments in the United States
Children's literary awards
English-language literary awards