Children’s book illustrator Jonathan Bean and writer David EzraStein will be awarded the 2008 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award for their outstanding work in children’s literature on May 15, 2008 in The New York Public Library’s Donnell Library.

Brooklyn-based author David Ezra Stein will receive the 2008 New Writer Award for Leaves (G.P. Putnam’s Sons), a charming tale that shows the changing seasons through the eyes of a bear.  The 2008 New Illustrator Award will be granted to Jonathan Bean, who illustrated The Apple Pie that Papa Baked (Simon & Schuster), by Lauren Thompson, which tells a whimsical story about apples, a pie, and the papa who baked it.

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