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2024 EJK Award Ceremony Photos

View photos of the 2024 EJK Award Winners and Honors PLUS an amazing group of today’s most important writers and illustrators, including, James Ransome, Jason Chin, Chris Raschka, Lesa Cline-Ransome, Melissa Iwai, and Cynthia Leitich Smith. The Kaigler Children’s Book Festival is known for attracting this caliber of talent every year. (scroll down for captions)

Photo Credit: Kelly Dunn, University of Southern Mississippi (USM)

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Photo Captions (left to right)

  1. Beatriz Gutierrez Hernandez, 2024 EJK Award Honor, Illustrator, Sarah Gonzales, 2024 EJK Award Winner, Illustrator, Anne Wynter, 2024 EJK Award Winner, Writer, Kim Rogers, 2024 EJK Award Honor, Writer
  2. Shannan Hicks, 2024 Chair, EJK Award Committee/Librarian
  3. Beatriz Gutierrez Hernandez, Sarah Gonzales, Chris Raschka, Author/Illustrator/2024 EJK Award Committee, Jason Chin, Author/Illustrator, Melissa Iwai, Author/Illustrator/2024 EJK Award Committee
  4. Karlie Herndon, Curator, de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection, University of Southern Mississippi (USM)
  5. Deborah Pope, Executive Director, Ezra Jack Keats Foundation (EJK Foundation)
  6. Jason Chin 
  7. Lesa Cline-Ransome, Author
  8. Ellen Ruffin, 2025 EJK Award Chair/Curator Emeritus, de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection, USM, Professor John Eye, Dean of University Libraries, USM
  9. James Ransome, Author/Illustrator
  10. Stacy Creel, Director, School of Library and Information Science, Juana Martinez-Neal Author/Illustrator/2020 EJK Award Honor, Illustrator 
  11. Diana Vozza, Associate Executive Director, EJK Foundation
  12. Liz Kleinrock, Author/Educator, Teach and Transform
  13. Rebecca Pope-Brooks, EJK Foundation, Sarah Mangrum, Assistant Teaching Professor of Library and Information Science, USM, Jocelyn McCarthy, Director of Media and PR, EJK Foundation
  14. Karlie Herndon, Claire Thompson, retired EJK Coordinator, USM, Lorraine Stuart, Head of Special Collections/Curator of Historical Manuscripts & Archives/Professor, USM
  15. Cynthia Leitich Smith, Author/Illustrator, Dr. Joe Paul, President, USM
  16. Anne Wynter, Sarah Gonzales
  17. Shannan Hicks, James Ransome
  18. Group Photo:

Back row: Marge Sauls, de Grummond Collection Specialist, USM, Karlie Herndon, Sam Bloom, 2024 EJK Award Committee/Librarian, Chris Raschka, Author/Illustrator/2024 EJK Award Committee, Jason Chin 

Middle Row: Deborah Taylor, 2024 EJK Award Committee/former Chair/Librarian, Rita Auerbach, 2024 EJK Award Committee/former Chair/Librarian, Melissa Iwai, Author Illustrator/2024 EJK Award Committee

Front Row: Shannan Hicks, Beatriz Gutierrez Hernandez, Sarah Gonzales, Anne Wynter, Kim Rogers, Deborah Pope

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