From: mtice at nypl.org <mtice>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 17:11:33 -0400

The New York Public Library and the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation are pleased to announce the 2006 winners of the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer and New Illustrator Book Awards. Mary Ann Rodman has been selected as an outstanding new children?s author for her picture book My Best Friend
(Viking), and Yunmee Kyong has been chosen as an outstanding new illustrator for Silly Chicken (Viking). The Ezra Jack Keats Awards recognize and encourage talented new children?s book authors and illustrators, who, in the spirit of Ezra Jack Keats, create vividly written and illustrated children?s books that offer fresh and positive views of the multicultural world inhabited by children today. Each winner receives a
$1,000 cash prize and a bronze medallion. The presentations will be made on Thursday, May 11 at 5:00 p.m. in the Central Children?s Room at the Donnell Library Center, 20 West 53 Street. The ceremony is open to the public. This will be the 15th celebration for the Ezra Jack Keats Awards. Please join us if you are able to attend.


Margaret





Margaret Tice, Coordinator

Office of Children's Services

New York Public Library

455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-0122

212-340-0903, fax: 212-340-0988
Received on Mon 01 May 2006 04:11:33 PM CDT