2007 Ezra Jack Keats Award Winners

Kristen Balouch

I moved around the US as a child 6 Word Memoir: dreamy child, big city, still dreamy  sleeping in a field—under stars Activities: I like to read and I like to make things. Where do you work?/Neat or Messy?: In the summer time I work in my hammock. It doesn't look like work. But it is! I am messy. I like to see all my things around me, but my drawers are pretty organized. Other Awards:

• Golden Kite Award for Illustration: The King & the Three Thieves 
• CCBC Best Book of the Year: Charlotte Zolotow Commended: Mystery Bottle  
• Middle East Book Award
• Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year