# 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 (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.
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.

## Winner

Ezra Jack Keats Book Award winners :
| Year | Category | Author | Title |
| 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 |
| 2001 | 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 |
| 2003 | Writer | Shirin Yim Bridges | Ruby's Wish |
| 2004 | Illustrator | Gabi Swiatkowska | My Name Is Yoon |
| 2004 | Writer | Jeron Ashford Frame | Yesterday I Had the Blues |
| 2005 | Illustrator | Ana Juan | The Night Eater |
| 2005 | Writer | Janice N. Harrington | Going North |
| 2006 | Illustrator | Yunmee Kyong | Silly Chicken |
| 2006 | Writer | Mary Ann Rodman | My Best Friend |
| 2007 | Illustrator | Kristen Balouch | Mystery Bottle |
| 2007 | Writer | Kelly Cunnane | For You Are a Kenyan Child |
| 2008 | Illustrator | Jonathan Bean | The Apple Pie that Papa Baked |
| 2008 | Writer | David Ezra Stein | Leaves |
| 2009 | Illustrator | Shadra Strickland | Bird |
| 2009 | Writer | Stian Hole | Garmann's Summer |
| 2010 | Illustrator | Taeeun Yoo | Only a Witch Can Fly |
| 2010 | Writer | Tonya Cherie Hegamin | Most Loved in All the World |
| 2011 | Illustrator | Tao Nyeu | Bunny Days |
| 2011 | Writer | Laurel Croza | I Know Here |
| 2012 | Illustrator | Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw | Same, Same but Different |
| 2012 | Writer | Meg Medina | Tía Isa Wants a Car |
| 2013 | Illustrator | Hyewon Yum | Mom, It’s My First Day of Kindergarten! |
| 2013 | Writer | Julie Fogliano | And Then It’s Spring |
| 2014 | Illustrator | Christian Robinson | Rain |
| 2014 | Writer | Ame Dyckman | Tea Party Rules |
| 2015 | Illustrator | Chris Haughton | Shh! We Have a Plan |
| 2015 | Writer | Chieri Uegaki | Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin |
| 2016 | Illustrator | Phoebe Wahl | Sonya's Chicken |
| 2016 | Writer | Don Tate | Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton |
| 2017 | Illustrator | Micha Archer | Daniel Finds a Poem |
| 2017 | Writer | Jeri Watts | A Piece of Home |
| 2018 | Illustrator | Michael Mahin | Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters |
| 2018 | Writer | Derrick Barnes | Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut |
| 2019 | Illustrator | Oge Mora | Thank you, Omu! |
| 2019 | Writer | John Sullivan | Kitten and the Night Watchman |
| 2020 | Illustrator | Ashleigh Corrin | Layla’s Happiness |
| 2020 | Writer | Sydney Smith | Small in the City |
| 2021 | Illustrator | Heidi Woodward Sheffield | Brick by Brick |
| 2021 | Writer | Tricia Elam Walker | Nana Akua Goes to School |
| 2022 | Illustrator | Gracey Zhang | Lala's Words |
| 2022 | Writer | Paul Harbridge | Out into the Big Wide Lake |
| 2023 | Illustrator | Doug Salati | Hot Dog |
| 2023 | Writer | Kari Percival | How To Say Hello to a Worm |
| 2024 | Illustrator | Sarah Gonzales | The Only Way to Make Bread |
| 2024 | Writer | Anne Wynter | Nell Plants a Tree |