Ezra Jack Keats Award Winners
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Writer Award
Sydney Smith
Small in the City
Illustrated by Sydney Smith
Neal Porter Books, an imprint of Holiday House Publishing, Inc.
Illustrator Award
Ashleigh Corrin
Layla's Happiness
Written by Mariahdessa Ekere Tallie
Enchanted Lion Books
Writer Award
John Sullivan
Kitten and the Night Watchman
Published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Illustrator Award
Oge Mora
Thank you, Omu!
Published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Writer Award
Derrick Barnes
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
Illustrated by Gordon C. James
Agate Bolden/Denene Millner Books
Illustrator Award
Evan Turk
Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters
Written by Michael Mahin
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Writer Award
Jeri Watts
A Piece of Home
Illustrated by Hyewon Yum
Candlewick Press
Illustrator Award
Micha Archer
Daniel Finds a Poem
Nancy Paulsen Books
Writer Award
Don Tate
Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
Peachtree Publishers
Illustrator Award
Phoebe Wahl
Sonya's Chicken
Tundra Books
Writer Award
Chieri Uegaki
Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin
Kids Can Press
Illustrator Award
Chris Haughton
Shh! We Have a Plan
Candlewick Press
Writer Award
Ame Dyckman
Tea Party Rules
Viking
Illustrator Award
Christian Robinson
Rain
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Writer Award
Julie Fogliano
And Then It’s Spring
Neal Porter Books/Roaring Brook Press
Illustrator Award
Hyewon Yum
Mom, It’s My First Day of Kindergarten!
Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Writer Award
Meg Medina
Tía Isa Wants a Car
Candlewick Press
Illustrator Award
Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw
Same, Same but Different
Christy Ottaviano Books/ Henry Holt
Writer Award
Laurel Croza
I Know Here
Groundwood Books
Illustrator Award
Tao Nyeu
Bunny Days
Dial Books for Young Readers
2010
Writer Award
Tonya Cherie Hegamin
Most Loved in All the World
Houghton Mifflin
Illustrator Award
Taeeun Yoo
Only a Witch Can Fly
Feiwel & Friends
2009
Writer Award
Stian Hole
Garmann's Summer
Eerdmans
Illustrator Award
Shadra Strickland
Bird
Lee & Low Books
2008
Writer Award
David Ezra Stein
Leaves
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Illustrator Award
Jonathan Bean
The Apple Pie that Papa Baked
Simon & Schuster
2007
Writer Award
Kelly Cunnane
For You Are a Kenyan Child
Atheneum
Illustrator Award
Kristen Balouch
Mystery Bottle
Hyperion Books
2006
Writer Award
Mary Ann Rodman
My Best Friend
Viking
Illustrator Award
Yunmee Kyong
Silly Chicken
Viking
2005
Writer Award
Janice N. Harrington
Going North
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Illustrator Award
Ana Juan
The Night Eater
Arthur A. Levine Books
2004
Writer Award
Jeron Ashford Frame
Yesterday I Had the Blues
Tricycle Press
Illustrator Award
Gabi Swiatkowska
My Name Is Yoon
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2003
Writer Award
Shirin Yim Bridges
Ruby's Wish
Chronicle Books
Illustrator Award
Sophie Blackall
Ruby's Wish
Chronicle Books
2002
Writer Award
Deborah Wiles
Freedom Summer
Atheneum
Illustrator Award
Jerome Lagarrigue
Freedom Summer
Atheneum
2001
Writer Award
D.B. Johnson
Henry Hikes to Fitchburg
Houghton Mifflin
Illustrator Award
Bryan Collier
Uptown
Henry Holt & Co.
2000
Writer Award
Soyung Pak
Dear Juno
Viking
1999
Writer Award
Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen
Elizabeti's Doll
Lee & Low Books
1997
Writer Award
Juan Felipe Herrera
Calling the Doves (El canto de las palomas)
Children's Book Press
1995
Writer Award
Cari Best
Taxi! Taxi!
Little, Brown & Co.
1993
Writer Award
Faith Ringgold
Tar Beach
Crown Publishers
1991
Writer Award
Angela Johnson
Tell Me a Story, Mama
Orchard Books (Scholastic)
1989
Writer Award
Yoriko Tsutsui
Anna's Special Present
Viking Kestrel
1987
Writer Award
Juanita Havill
Jamaica's Find
Houghton Mifflin
1986
Writer Award
Valerie Flournoy
The Patchwork Quilt
Dial Books