Join in the Summer Fun

Saturday in the park with Ezra: highlights from the EJK Family Concert

Featuring Dan Zanes with the Brooklyn Youth Orchestra and Bed Stuy Veterans

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tammy + kids + Keats = a Super Story Hour!

Gather around the Peter statue at the Imagination Playground in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park

Every Saturday in July and August, at 2 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bedtime Stories at the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library

Kids are invited to wear PJs!

Thursdays, August 25, September 22 at 7:30 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Ezra Jack Keats Film Festival

Our featured book this month is PET SHOW!
Enjoy the video, riddle, art and eduction projects, all around our germ Al, the quietest pet in the show

 

 

 

 

 

Educators News

New EJK Minigrant Application Online NOW

Our Minigrant application is now ELECTRONIC ONLY!  All the information you need is a click away: instructions, FAQs, the application, even a video tutorial hosted by Dr. Deborah Pope.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recent Posts

A Must See – Winners of the EJK Bookmaking Competition

Beracah and Jodi wrote: “We wrote a book about dim sum because it is a part of the Chinese culture we wanted to share. We decided to make a pop-up book to make our illustrations look more realistic. We wanted you to feel like you were really in a dim sum restaurant, [so] we imagined ourselves in the restaurant…[and used] different colored and designed papers for our collage to make tables, chairs and chandeliers. We had to make the pop-ups collapsible so the book could close. We had to work together and agree on ideas for the book. It took a lot of work to make a great book.”

 

 

Check Out the Winners of the 2011 EJK New Writer and New Illustrator Awards

 

Keeping Ezra’s Spirit alive involves more than celebrating his  books…it is celebrating contemporary authors and illustrators whose  work inspires a sense of inclusion, wonder and delight in children,  families and educators.