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Winners and honorees of the 2013 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer and New Illustrator Awards were celebrated at an awards ceremony on April 11 The University of Southern Mississippi’s Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival. From left to right, Don Tate (New Writer Honor Book Medalist author of It Jes’ Happened, Lee & Low), Hyewon Yum (winner of the New Illustrator award for Mom, It’s My First Day of Kindergarten!, Farrar), Julie Fogliano (winner of the New Writer award for And Then It’s Spring, Roaring Brook), and Jennifer Lanthier (New Writer Honor Book Medalist for The Stamp Collector, Fitzhenry & Whiteside). Photo by Kelly Dunn, Southern Miss Photo Services.

Author and illustrator Hervé Tullet speaks at a reception in celebration of his newest book I Am Blop! (Phaidon, 2013) held at the French embassy on April 12. Photo by Rocco Staino.

Hervé Tullet signs copies of I Am Blop. Photo by Rocco Staino.








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