Awards: Ezra Jack Keats

The Ezra Jack Keats Book Awards, which recognize a writer and an illustrator early in their careers for their outstanding work, have gone to:

New Writer: Jeri Watts for A Piece of Home (Candlewick Press)
New Illustrator: Micha Archer for Daniel Finds a Poem (Nancy Paulsen Books/PRH)

The winners receive a gold medallion and an honorarium of $1,000. The awards are presented by the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, in partnership with the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. The 2017 award ceremony will be held on April 6 during the Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival at the university. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor will present this year's Ezra Jack Keats Book Awards and Andrea Davis Pinkney will deliver the Keats Lecture.

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