EJK Award 1986-2010

2010

Writer Award Winner

Tonya Cherie Hegamin

Most Loved in All the World

Houghton Mifflin

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Illustrator Award Winner

Taeeun Yoo

Only a Witch Can Fly

Feiwel & Friends

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2009

Writer Award Winner

Stian Hole

Garmann’s Summer

Eerdmans

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Illustrator Award Winner

Shadra Strickland

Bird

Lee & Low Books

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2008

Writer Award Winner

David Ezra Stein

Leaves

G.P. Putnam’s Sons

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Illustrator Award Winner

Jonathan Bean

The Apple Pie that Papa Baked

Simon & Schuster

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2007

Writer Award Winner

Kelly Cunnane

For You Are a Kenyan Child

Atheneum

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Illustrator Award Winner

Kristen Balouch

Mystery Bottle

Hyperion Books

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2006

Writer Award Winner

Mary Ann Rodman

My Best Friend

Viking

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Illustrator Award Winner

Yunmee Kyong

Silly Chicken

Viking

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2005

Writer Award Winner

Janice N. Harrington

Going North

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Illustrator Award Winner

Ana Juan

The Night Eater

Arthur A. Levine Books

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2004

Writer Award Winner

Stian Jeron Ashford Frame

Yesterday I Had the Blues

Tricycle Press

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Illustrator Award Winner

Gabi Swiatkowska

My Name Is Yoon

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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2003

Writer Award Winner

Shirin Yim Bridges

Ruby’s Wish

Chronicle Books

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Illustrator Award Winner

Sophie Blackall

Ruby’s Wish

Chronicle Books

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2002

Writer Award Winner

Deborah Wiles

Freedom Summer

Atheneum

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Illustrator Award Winner

Jerome Lagarrigue

Freedom Summer

Atheneum

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2001

Writer Award Winner

D.B. Johnson

Henry Hikes to Fitchburg

Houghton Mifflin

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Illustrator Award Winner

Bryan Collier

Uptown

Henry Holt & Co.

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2000

Writer Award Winner

Soyung Pak

Dear Juno

Viking

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1999

Writer Award Winner

Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen

Elizabeti’s Doll

Lee & Low Books

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Prior to 1999 EJK Award was giving every other year

1997

Writer Award Winner

Juan Felipe Herrera

Calling the Doves (El canto de las palomas)

Children’s Book Press

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1995

Writer Award Winner

Cari Best

Taxi! Taxi!

Little, Brown & Co.

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1993

Writer Award Winner

Faith Ringgold

Tar Beach

Crown Publishers

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1991

Writer Award Winner

Angela Johnson

Tell Me a Story, Mama

Orchard Books (Scholastic)

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1989

Writer Award Winner

Yoriko Tsutsui

Anna’s Special Present

Viking Kestrel

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1987

Writer Award Winner

Juanita Havill

Jamaica’s Find

Houghton Mifflin

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1986