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From: Rita Auerbach <rita.auerbach>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:05:36 -0500
The New York Public Library and the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation are very pleased to announce that Gabi Swiatkowska is the winner of the 2004 Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award for My Name is Yoon (written by Helen Recorvits and published by Frances Foster Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and Jeron Ashford Frame has won the 2004 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award for Yesterday I Had the Blues
(illustrated by R. Gregory Christie and published by Tricycle Press).
The awards will be presented on Thursday, April 29th, at 5 P.M., at a ceremony and reception open to the public in the Central Children's Room of the Donnell Library Center, 20 West 53rd Street, just west of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Join us to meet and honor these talented newcomers to the world of children's picture books. Call (212) 340 06 for reservations.
The awards recognize and celebrate new children's book authors and illustrators, in an effort to encourage talented artists and writers to address their efforts to books for children in the spirit and tradition of Ezra Jack Keats.
The selection jury for the awards, chaired by Rita Auerbach, included author Cari Best; Karen Breen, Juvenile Book Review Editor for Kirkus Review; Sandra Kennedy Bright, Director, School Library Services, New York City Department of Education; author/illustrator Put Cummings; author/illustrator Brian Pinkney; Judith Rovenger, Youth Services Consultant for the Westchester Library System; scholar and author Leonard Marcus; and author/illustrator Paul Zelinsky. Margaret Tice, Coordinator of Children's Services, New York Public Library, is administrator of the awards.
The press release for the awards can be found at http://www.nypl.org/press/keatsaward2004.html . The web site for the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation is at http://www.ezra-jack-keats.org .
Received on Wed 31 Mar 2004 11:05:36 PM CST
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:05:36 -0500
The New York Public Library and the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation are very pleased to announce that Gabi Swiatkowska is the winner of the 2004 Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award for My Name is Yoon (written by Helen Recorvits and published by Frances Foster Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and Jeron Ashford Frame has won the 2004 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award for Yesterday I Had the Blues
(illustrated by R. Gregory Christie and published by Tricycle Press).
The awards will be presented on Thursday, April 29th, at 5 P.M., at a ceremony and reception open to the public in the Central Children's Room of the Donnell Library Center, 20 West 53rd Street, just west of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Join us to meet and honor these talented newcomers to the world of children's picture books. Call (212) 340 06 for reservations.
The awards recognize and celebrate new children's book authors and illustrators, in an effort to encourage talented artists and writers to address their efforts to books for children in the spirit and tradition of Ezra Jack Keats.
The selection jury for the awards, chaired by Rita Auerbach, included author Cari Best; Karen Breen, Juvenile Book Review Editor for Kirkus Review; Sandra Kennedy Bright, Director, School Library Services, New York City Department of Education; author/illustrator Put Cummings; author/illustrator Brian Pinkney; Judith Rovenger, Youth Services Consultant for the Westchester Library System; scholar and author Leonard Marcus; and author/illustrator Paul Zelinsky. Margaret Tice, Coordinator of Children's Services, New York Public Library, is administrator of the awards.
The press release for the awards can be found at http://www.nypl.org/press/keatsaward2004.html . The web site for the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation is at http://www.ezra-jack-keats.org .
Received on Wed 31 Mar 2004 11:05:36 PM CST
