2005 Ezra Jack Keats Award Winners

Janice N. Harrington

From and Now: South Midwest 6 Word Memoir: Girl story lover: now woman storyteller Activities: Long walks and raiding my local libraries Where do you work: I write In a small upstairs room crowded with books, paper, notebooks, files, my letter writing boxes, files, and a comfortable rocking chair. Other Awards:

• The Charlotte Zolotow Award: The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County
• Arnold Adoff Poetry Award Honor: Catching a Storyfish

Upcoming: A new children's biography and verse novel

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Ana Juan

From: Valencia ( Spain); Now: Madrid (Spain) 6 Word Memoir: Under bed listening steps then, silence... Activities: I am a storyteller and nothing can´t be funnier for me than telling stories through pictures. Distraction/Neat or Messy? Anywhere, anytime...  I am messy neat. Other Awards:

• The National Illustration Prize 2010 awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

Upcoming: The secret Life of Cats, Lunwerg Publishers, Fall 2020   Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw From: St. Louis, MO; Now: Taos, New Mexico 6 Word Memoir: Barefoot in mountains, listening to stars Activities: Read everyday and play with my kids Distraction: First I clean, then I make a wild, colorful mess. Other Awards:

• South Asian Book Award: Same, Same but Different
• CLC Book Award.
• Green Prize for Sustainable Literature: Luna & Me

Upcoming: Papa Brings Me the World, May 2020, Christy Ottaviano Books.

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