I’m excited to invite you to attend our first Virtual EJK Award Ceremony, to be streamed on Thursday, June 4th from 12 - 1 pm EST. 

 

This year’s attendees (thanks to our Virtual nature) will include former winners, honorees, other prominent authors and illustrators, friends in the publishing industry, library leaders and members of the EJK Award committee from across the globe. 

 

The 2020 EJK Award winners and honorees, all up and coming stars, are:

 

Writer Winner 

• Sydney Smith, for Small in the City (Illustrated by Sydney Smith / Published by Neal Porter Books, an imprint of Holiday House Publishing, Inc.)

Illustrator Winner 

• Ashleigh Corrin, for Layla’s Happiness (Written by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie / Published by Enchanted Lion Books)

Writer Honor

• Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, for Layla’s Happiness (illustrated by Ashleigh Corrin, published by Enchanted Lion Books)
• Matthew Farina, for Lawrence in the Fall  (illustrated by Doug Salati, published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Illustrator Honor

• Doug Salati, for Lawrence in the Fall (written by Matthew Farina, published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Zeke Peña, for My Papi Has a Motorcycle (written by Isabel Quintero, published by Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House)
• Kate Read, for One Fox: A Counting Book Thriller (written by Kate Read, published by Peachtree Publishing Company)

Please join us! Register here and we’ll send you information and instructions on how to “tune-in”. Also please find us on Twitter, FaceBook and Instagram to see some special award ceremony previews featuring  our winners and honorees.

 

You can feel free to extend this invitation to your friends and colleagues. We’d love for them to be part of this virtual event to celebrate diversity in children’s literature as well.

 

Sincerely,

 

Deborah Pope, Ph.D.                            
Executive Director

Ezra Jack Keats Foundation 

450 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215

718-965-1266                 

 

 

Forwarded by:

 

Sharon Rawlins, MLS

Youth Services Specialist for Lifelong Learning

NJ State Library

185 West State St.

P.O. Box 520

Trenton, NJ 08625-0520

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