EJK Award Winners
| Year | Name | Award | Book | Publisher |
|---|
2022 | | | | |
| Paul Harbridge | Winner Writer | Out Into The Big Wide Lake | Tundra/PRH Canada |
| Gracey Zhang | Winner Illustrator | Lala’s Words | Orchard Books/Scholastic |
2021 | | | | |
| Tricia Elam Walker | Winner Writer | Nana Akua Goes to School | Penguin Random House |
| Heidi Woodward Sheffield | Winner Illustrator | Brick by Brick | Penguin Random House |
2020 | | | | |
| Ashleigh Corrin | Winner Illustrator | Layla’s Happiness | Holiday House |
| Sydney Smith | Winner Writer | Small in the City | Holiday House |
2019 | | | | |
| Oge Mora | Winner Illustrator | Thank You, Omu! | Hachette Book Group |
| John Sullivan | Winner Writer | Kitten and the Night Watchman | Simon & Schuster |
2018 | | | | |
| Derrick Barnes | Winner Writer | Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut | Agate |
| Evan Turk | Winner Illustrator | Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters | Simon & Schuster |
2017 | | | | |
| Micha Archer | Winner Illustrator | Daniel Finds a Poem | Penguin Random House |
| Jeri Watts | Winner Writer | A Piece of Home | Candlewick Press |
2016 | | | | |
| Don Tate | Winner Writer | Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton | Trustbridge Global Media |
| Phoebe Wahl | Winner Illustrator | Sonya’s Chickens | Penguin Random House |
2015 | | | | |
| Chris Haughton | Winner Illustrator | Shh! We Have a Plan | Candlewick Press |
| Chieri Uegaki | Winner Writer | Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin | Corus Entertainment Canada |
2014 | | | | |
| Ame Dyckman | Winner Writer | Tea Party Rules | Penguin Random House |
| Christian Robinson | Winner Illustrator | Rain! | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
2013 | | | | |
| Julie Fogliano | Winner Writer | And Then It’s Spring | Macmillan |
| Hyewon Yum | Winner Illustrator | Mom, It’s My First Day of Kindergarten! | Macmillan |
2012 | | | | |
| Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw | Winner Illustrator | Same, Same but Different | Macmillan |
| Meg Medina | Winner Writer | Tia Isa Wants a Car | Candlewick Press |
2011 | | | | |
| Laura Croza | Winner Writer | I Know Here | Groundwood |
| Tao Nyeu | Winner Illustrator | Bunny Days | Penguin Random House |
2010 | | | | |
| Tonya Cherie Hegamin | Winner Writer | Most Loved in All the World | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Taeeun Yoo | Winner Illustrator | Only a Witch Can Fly | Macmillan |
2009 | | | | |
| Stian Hole | Winner Writer | Garmann’s Summer | Eerdmans Books |
| Shadra Strickland | Winner Illustrator | Bird | Lee & Low Books |
2008 | | | | |
| Jonathan Bean | Winner Illustrator | The Apple Pie that Papa Baked | Simon & Schuster |
| David Ezra Stein | Winner Writer | Leaves | Penguin Random House |
2007 | | | | |
| Kristen Balouch | Winner Illustrator | Mystery Bottle | Disney(Hyperion) |
| Kelly Cunnane | Winner Writer | For You Are a Kenyan Child | Simon & Schuster |
2006 | | | | |
| Yunmee Kyong | Winner Illustrator | Silly Chicken | Penguin Random House |
| Mary Ann Rodman | Winner Writer | My Best Friend | Penguin Random House |
2005 | | | | |
| Janice N. Harrington | Winner Writer | Going North | Macmillan |
| Ana Juan | Winner Illustrator | The Night Eater | Scholastic |
2004 | | | | |
| Jeron Ashford Frame | Winner Writer | Yesterday I Had the Blues | Penguin Random House |
| Gabi Swiatkowska | Winner Illustrator | My Name is Yoon | Macmillan |
2003 | | | | |
| Sophie Blackall | Winner Illustrator | Ruby’s Wish | McEvoy Group |
| Shirin Yim Bridges | Winner Writer | Ruby’s Wish | McEvoy Group |
2002 | | | | |
| Jerome Lagarrigue | Winner Illustrator | Freedom Summer | Simon & Schuster |
| Deborah Wiles | Winner Writer | Freedom Summer | Simon & Schuster |
2001 | | | | |
| Bryan Collier | Winner Illustrator | Uptown | Macmillan |
| D.B. Johnson | Winner Writer | Henry Hikes to Fitchburg | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
2000 | | | | |
| Soyung Pak | Winner Writer | Dear Juno | Penguin Random House |
1999 | | | | |
| Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen | Winner Writer | Elizabeti’s Doll | Lee & Low Books |
1997 | | | | |
| Juan Felipe Herrera | Winner Writer | Calling the Doves (El canto de las palomas) | Lee & Low Books |
1995 | | | | |
| Cari Best | Winner Writer | Taxi! Taxi! | Hachette Book Group |
1993 | | | | |
| Faith Ringgold | Winner Writer | Tar Beach | Penguin Random House |
1991 | | | | |
| Angela Johnson | Winner Writer | Tell Me a Story, Mama | Scholastic |
1989 | | | | |
| Yoriko Tsutsui | Winner Writer | Anna’s Special Present | Penguin Random House |
1987 | | | | |
| Juanita Havill | Winner Writer | Jamaica’s Find | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
1986 | | | | |
| Valerie Flournoy | Winner Writer | The Patchwork Quilt | Penguin Random House |
EJK Honorees
| Year | Name | Award | Book | Publisher |
|---|
2022 | | | | |
| Joanna Ho | Honor Writer | Playing at the Border | Harper/HarperCollins |
| Anne Wynter | Honor Writer | Everybody in the Red Brick Building | Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins |
| Marta Bartolj | Honor Illustrator | Every Little Kindness | Chronicle |
| Kenehsa Sneed/td> | Honor Illustrator | Many Shapes of Clay | Prestel/PRH |
2021 | | | | |
| Jarrett & Jerome Pumphrey | Honor Writer | The Old Truck | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Raymond Antrobus | Honor Writer | Can Bears Ski? | Candlewick Press |
| Steve Small | Honor Illustrator | I’m Sticking With You | Macmillan |
| Victoria Tentler-Krylov | Honor Illustrator | Cyclops of Central Park | Penguin Random House |
2020 | | | | |
| Matthew Farina | Honor Writer | Lawrence in the Fall | Hachette Book Group |
| Zeke Peña | Honor Illustrator | My Papi Has a Motorcycle | Penguin Random House |
| Kate Read | Honor Illustrator | One Fox: A Counting Book Thriller | Holiday House |
| Doug Salati | Honor Illustrator | Lawrence in the Fall | Hachette Book Group |
| Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie | Honor Writer | Layla’s Happiness | Enchanted Lion Books |
2019 | | | | |
| Keith Calabrese | Honor Writer | Lena’s Shoes are Nervous | Simon & Schuster |
| Matt James | Honor Writer | The Funeral | Groundwood |
| Jessica Love | Honor Illustrator | Julian is a Mermaid | Candlewick Press |
| Juana Martinez-Neal | Honor Writer | Alma | Candlewick Press |
| Jane McGuinness | Honor Illustrator | Prickly Hedgehogs! | Candlewick Press |
2018 | | | | |
| Jessixa Bagley | Honor Writer | Laundry Day | Macmillan |
| Thi Bui | Honor Illustrator | A Different Pond | Capstone |
| Rachel Cole | Honor Writer | City Moon | Penguin Random House |
| Bianca Diaz | Honor Illustrator | The One Day House | Charlesbridge |
| E.B. Goodale | Honor Illustrator | Windows | Candlewick Press |
| Gordon C. James | Honor Illustrator | Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut | Agate |
| Elaine Magliaro | Honor Writer | Things to Do | McEvoy Group |
| Bao Phi | Honor Writer | A Different Pond | Capstone |
2017 | | | | |
| Daisy Hirst | Honor Illustrator | The Girl with the Parrot on Her Head | Candlewick Press |
| Stacy McAnulty | Honor Writer | Excellent Ed | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Francesca Sanna | Honor Illustrator | The Journey | Nobrow Press |
| Francesca Sanna | Honor Writer | The Journey | Nobrow Press |
2016 | | | | |
| Megan Dowd Lambert | Honor Writer | A Crow of His Own | Charlesbridge |
| Ryan T. Higgins | Honor Illustrator | Mother Bruce | Disney(Hyperion) |
| Julia Sarcone-Roach | Honor Writer | The Bear Ate Your Sandwich | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Rowboat Watkins | Honor Illustrator | Rude Cakes | McEvoy Group |
2015 | | | | |
| Adam Auerbach | Honor Writer | Edda: A Little Valkyrie’s First Day of School | Macmillan |
| Misty Copeland | Honor Writer | Firebird | Penguin Random House |
| Mike Curato | Honor Illustrator | Little Elliot, Big City | Macmillan |
| Alan (deceased) Rabinowitz | Honor Writer | A Boy and a Jaguar | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Evan Turk | Honor Illustrator | Grandfather Gandhi | Simon & Schuster |
2014 | | | | |
| Marta Altés | Honor Illustrator | My Grandpa | Abrams |
| K.G. Campbell | Honor Illustrator | Tea Party Rules | Penguin Random House |
| Linda Davick | Honor Writer | I Love You, Nose! I Love You, Toes! | Simon & Schuster |
| Aaron Meshon | Honor Illustrator | Take Me Out to the Yakyu | Simon & Schuster |
| Pat Zietlow Miller | Honor Writer | Sophie’s Squash | Penguin Random House |
2013 | | | | |
| K.G. Campbell | Honor Illustrator | Lester’s Dreadful Sweaters | Corus Entertainment Canada |
| Jennifer Lanthier | Honor Writer | The Stamp Collector | Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited |
| Sanjay Patel | Honor Illustrator | Ganesha’s Sweet Tooth | McEvoy Group |
| Mara Rockliff | Honor Writer | My Heart Will Not Sit Down | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Don Tate | Honor Writer | It Jes’ Happened | Lee & Low Books |
2012 | | | | |
| Micha Archer | Honor Illustrator | Lola’s Fandango | Barefoot Books |
| David Ercolini | Honor Illustrator | Not Inside this House! | Hachette Book Group |
| Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw | Honor Writer | Same, Same but Different | Macmillan |
| Nicola Winstanley | Honor Writer | Cinnamon Baby | Corus Entertainment |
| Anna Witte | Honor Writer | Lola’s Fandango | Barefoot Books |
