Dear Friends, May 2014

We have a special reason for loving Spring...it's the EJK awards season! Click through for highlights of April's Book Awards ceremony. Check out the winners of the 2014 Bookmaking Competition - and if you can, see their books on display! Plus, Minigrants for the upcoming school year have been awarded...a complete list of recipients is coming soon.

Reaping the Awards

The winners' circle at the EJK Book Awards ceremony. From left: Linda Davick, Pat Zietlow Miller, Ame Dyckman, Christian Robinson,

K.G. Campbell

Great Books

Three cheers for the winners of the 2014 EJK/NYC Department

of Education Bookmaking Competition! View their books at the Brooklyn Public Library Central Library at Grand Army Plaza, through May 23

"The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats"

See the Keats retrospective and enjoy the great family programs at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, through September 7, 2014

Tweets on Keats

Straight from our Twitter feed: a new, periodic feature that captures the traffic on a relevant subject - in this case, the EJK Book Award

Take time to luxuriate in all the blooming flowers and bursts of greenery - an essential antidote to the long winter blues.

Executive Director

Ezra Jack Keats Foundation

Dedicated to fostering children's love of reading
and creative self-expression

EJK Family Concert

Ozomatli's Ozokidz brings the band's multi-genre exuberance to a new generation, at the Prospect Park Bandshell, Saturday,

June 14, at 4 p.m.

As always, there will be readings, dancing, food and fun for all

EJK Bedtime Stories

Free Keats book!
Thursday, May 22, 7 p.m.

Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza

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