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Meet the 2022 EJK Award Winners

Writer, Paul Harbridge
Out Into the Big Wide Lake

Illustrator, Gracey Zhang
Lala’s Words
Meet the 2022 EJK Award Honors




Upcoming Book Tour (Virtual Panel Discussions)
June 1, 6pm CT7pm ET – BookPeople (Austin, TX) with Marta Bartolj, Anne Wynter, Gracey Zhang
June 13, 6pm PT/9pm ET – Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA) with Joanna Ho, Gracey Zhang, Kenesha Sneed
Past Panel Discussions
Books of Wonder (New York City) April 10

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.

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).