Ezra Jack Keats Award
Given jointly with Ezra Jack Keats Foundation to a promising new children's book author.
Ezra Jack Keats Award for Excellence in Children's Literature
- 2011: Tao Nyeu and children's author Laurel Croza
- 2010: Tonya Hegamin and Taeeun Yoo
- 2009: Stian Hole and Shandra Strickland
- 2008: David Ezra Stein and Jonathan Bean
- 2007: Kristen Balouch and Kelly Cunnane
- 2006: Mary Ann Rodman and Yunmee Kyong
- 2005: Ana Juan and Janice N. Harrington
- 2004: Gabi Swiatkowska and Jeron Ashford Frame
- 2003: Shirin Yim Bridges and Sophie Blackall
- 2002: Deborah Wiles & Jerome Lagarrigue
- 2001: D. B. Johnson and Bryan Collier
- 2000: Soyung Pak
- 1999: Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen