EJK Award is given annually to an outstanding new writer and new illustrator by the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation in partnership with the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM).
Meet the 2021 35th Anniversary Award Winners and Honorees
Writer Award Winner, Tricia Elam Walker
Nana Akua Goes to School
Illustrator Award Winner, Heidi Woodward Sheffield
Brick by Brick
Honorees
Jarrett & Jerome Pumphrey
Raymond Antrobus
Steve Small
Victoria Tentler-Krylov
Run a Mock EJK Award
The Mock EJK Award Toolkits provide guidance for an exciting group activity in which you and your students discuss, evaluate and together vote for the Mock EJK Award winners.