Launch date Fall 2025
Children and Libraries Article get inspired
Reprinted with permission from Children and Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children (Vol. 22, No. 2, Summer 2024), a division of the American Library Association.
Your students are the judges and using actual EJK Award protocol based criteria, they pick their own Mock EJK Award winning books!
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The Competition has inspired thousands of students to take pride in their reading and writing by showing them they can actually enjoy improving their literacy skills.
The Award is given annually to an outstanding writer and illustrator early in their career.
• Book Discussion Guides use EJK Award books for pizzazz
• Mock EJK Award promotes engaged reading
• Read Aloud Guide new tips for old pros
• Keats Author Study tools to inspire kids with EJK classics
• 30 minute Documentary
• Compelling History of Diversity in Children’s Literature
• In-depth Discussion Guide for a Classroom or Group
EJK Award
The EJK Award celebrates outstanding picture book illustrators and writers early in their careers. It is given annually by the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation in partnership with the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM).
EJK Bookmaking Competition
Make reading, writing and illustrating fun for your students. For public schools (grades 3–12)
About Ezra
Ezra Jack Keats changed children’s literature with the success of his groundbreaking book, The Snowy Day, in 1962. He believed all children should be able to see themselves in books they love.