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From: mtice_at_nypl.org <mtice>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 17:08:53 -0500
The New York Public Library and the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation are pleased to announce that author Janice N. Harrington and illustrator Ana Juan have won the 2005 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer and New Illustrator Awards. The New Writer Award goes to Janice N. Harrington for the picture book Going North, illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue, published by Melanie Kroupa Books, an imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The New Illustrator Award goes to Ana Juan for the picture book The Night Eater, published by Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. The Awards are to recognize new talent in the field of children's picture books and are named in honor of children's book author/illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (The Snowy Day), winner of the Caldecott Medal.
The Awards will be presented on April 21 at 5 p.m. at a ceremony open to the public at the Central Children's Room of the Donnell Library Center, 20 West 53rd Street in Manhattan. Both honorees will receive an Ezra Jack Keats bronze medallion and a $1,000 cash prize, made possible through the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation.
Margaret Tice, Coordinator Office of Children's Services New York Public Library 455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 1001622 21240 03; fax: 21240 88
Received on Tue 01 Mar 2005 04:08:53 PM CST
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 17:08:53 -0500
The New York Public Library and the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation are pleased to announce that author Janice N. Harrington and illustrator Ana Juan have won the 2005 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer and New Illustrator Awards. The New Writer Award goes to Janice N. Harrington for the picture book Going North, illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue, published by Melanie Kroupa Books, an imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The New Illustrator Award goes to Ana Juan for the picture book The Night Eater, published by Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. The Awards are to recognize new talent in the field of children's picture books and are named in honor of children's book author/illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (The Snowy Day), winner of the Caldecott Medal.
The Awards will be presented on April 21 at 5 p.m. at a ceremony open to the public at the Central Children's Room of the Donnell Library Center, 20 West 53rd Street in Manhattan. Both honorees will receive an Ezra Jack Keats bronze medallion and a $1,000 cash prize, made possible through the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation.
Margaret Tice, Coordinator Office of Children's Services New York Public Library 455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 1001622 21240 03; fax: 21240 88
Received on Tue 01 Mar 2005 04:08:53 PM CST
