Ezra Jack Keats Book Award
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 and New Illustrator Award 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.
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, in Hattiesburg.
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
- Thank you, Omu! by Oge Mora
- Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes
- Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters by Michael Mahin
- A Piece of Home by Jeri Watts
- Daniel Finds a Poem by Micha Archer
- Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate
- Sonya's Chicken by Phoebe Wahl
- Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin by Chieri Uegaki
- Shh! We Have a Plan by Chris Haughton
- Tea Party Rules by Ame Dyckman
- Rain by Christian Robinson
- And Then It’s Spring by Julie Fogliano
- Mom, It’s My First Day of Kindergarten! by Hyewon Yum
- Tía Isa Wants a Car by Meg Medina
- Same, Same but Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw
- I Know Here by Laurel Croza
- Bunny Days by Tao Nyeu
- Tía Isa Wants a Car by Meg Medina
- Same, Same but Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw
- I Know Here by Laurel Croza
- Bunny Days by Tao Nyeu
- Most Loved in All the World by Tonya Cherie Hegamin
- Only a Witch Can Fly by Taeeun Yoo
- Garmann's Summer by Stian Hole
- Bird by Shadra Strickland
- Leaves by David Ezra Stein
- The Apple Pie that Papa Baked by Jonathan Bean
- For You Are a Kenyan Child by Kelly Cunnane
- Mystery Bottle by Kristen Balouch
- My Best Friend by Mary Ann Rodman
- Silly Chicken by Yunmee Kyong
- Going North by Janice N. Harrington
- The Night Eater by Ana Juan
- Yesterday I Had the Blues by Jeron Ashford Frame
- My Name Is Yoon by Gabi Swiatkowska
- Ruby's Wish by Shirin Yim Bridges and Sophie Blackall
- Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles and Jerome Lagarrigue
- Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by D.B. Johnson
- Uptown by Bryan Collier
- Dear Juno by Soyung Pak
- Elizabeti's Doll by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen
- Calling the Doves by Juan Felipe Herrera
- Taxi! Taxi! by Cari Best
- Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
- Tell Me a Story, Mama by Angela Johnson
- Anna's Special Present by Yoriko Tsutsui
- Jamaica's Find by Juanita Havill
- The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy
