Ezra Jack Keats Book Award
| Ezra Jack Keats book award | |
|---|---|
| Date | April |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Ezra Jack Keats Foundation |
| First awarded | 1985 |
| Last awarded | Active |
| Official website |
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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. [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.
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,