From: Rita Auerbach <rita.auerbach_at_rcn.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:50:50 -0400

The Ezra Jack Keats Awards honor new authors and illustrators of children’s picture books whose work reflects Ezra Jack Keats’ values—the universal qualities of childhood, a strong and supportive family and the multicultural nature of our world. The winner of this year’s New Illustrator Award is Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw for Same, Same but Different (Henry Holt, 2011). The recipient of the New Writer Award is Meg Medina for Tía Isa Wants a Car (Candlewick, 201). The members of the Awards Committee were Rita Auerbach, Chair; Miriam Lang Budin; Nina Crews; Pat Cummings; Barbara Genco; Ginny Moore Kruse; Marisabina Russo; Karen Patricia Smith; and Lisa Von Drasek.

The awards will be presented on April 12 during the Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. Please check the press release for information on our award winners and honor books: http://www.ezra-jack-keats.org/press-release-book-award/ . Rita
Received on Sun 01 Apr 2012 11:50:50 AM CDT