October Fest! New Books & Keats Classics
Global Diversity Awareness Month
Celebrate great people and achievements from around the world with outstanding picture books. Visit our Diversity in Children’s Literature section for a list of our 2019 picks!
Celebrate great people and achievements from around the world with outstanding picture books. Visit our Diversity in Children’s Literature section for a list of our 2019 picks!
Bully Prevention Month
Goggles! is a go-to book for teachers and parents steering kids away from bullies and bullying. For more go to Goggles! You’ll find activities, a lesson plan, even a game based on the book!
Halloween
In The Trip, Louie misses his old neighborhood so he recreates it in a diorama. But he’s still sad, until his friends show up in costume to take him trick or treating! It’s a perfect pre or post-Halloween bedtime story.
Goggles! is a go-to book for teachers and parents steering kids away from bullies and bullying. For more go to Goggles! You’ll find activities, a lesson plan, even a game based on the book!
Halloween
In The Trip, Louie misses his old neighborhood so he recreates it in a diorama. But he’s still sad, until his friends show up in costume to take him trick or treating! It’s a perfect pre or post-Halloween bedtime story.
The Ezra Jack Keats Award
Winning an EJK Award is the beginning of a great career.
John Sullivan/EJK Award, Writer for Kitten and the Nightwatchman also won a Margaret Wise Brown Prize; and Oge Mora/EJK Award, Illustrator for Thank You, Omu! also won a Caldecott Honor!
EJK Educational Programs
Bookmaking Competition for public schools (grades 3–12)
Mini-Grants for public schools & libraries (grades pre-K–12)
Performance & Scholarship
About Ezra
Ezra Jack Keats broke the color barrier in children’s literature with the success of The Snowy Day, in 1962. He believed that all children should be able to see themselves in books they love.
