Meet this year’s winners and honorees at our virtual award ceremony on June 4th at 12 p.m. EST. REGISTER HERE EJK Award winners and honorees are sharing shor...

The Ezra Jack Keats Award at the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection provides an in-depth look at the authors, illustrators, and books that have rec...

The University of Southern Mississippi’s (USM) School of Library and Information Science is cancelling the 2020 Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival (CBF)...

The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, in partnership with the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM), announc...

Watch October 24 at 7 p.m. and October 27 at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on MPB Television. Join host Walt Grayson on an extraordinary tour of the de Grummond Chil...

On June 10, the Curious George Collection arrived back in Hattiesburg to its home at The University of Southern Mississippi’s (USM) de Grummond Children’s Li...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Coretta Scott King Award, and the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection is celebrating with a new exhibit ...

Ezra Jack Keats Foundation and de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi to Present Awards at Fay B. Kaigler Chi...

Syd Hoff was one of the foremost and prolific cartoonists in the United States, a regular contributor to newspapers, magazines, and children's literature. He...

The 2018 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award winners are creating a legacy in accord with that of the honor’s namesake. The Keats Book Award, presented since 2012 at ...

Approximately 2,000 schoolchildren gathered in Reed Green Coliseum on The University of Southern Mississippi’s Hattiesburg campus April 11 to get free books ...

Calling all 6-10 year olds! Children in the Hattiesburg area are invited to hear Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants and Dog Man, speak at the Southern...

The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, in partnership with the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi, announced tod...

For the past three years, the de Grummond Collection has been receiving prominent visitors from Japan’s public television entity, NHK. NHK airs the “Curious ...

The U.S. Postal Service showcases the work of Ezra Jack Keats’ most beloved story, The Snowy Day, on Forever stamps. Written and illustrated by the celebrate...

First $3,000 Prizes to be Presented at 32nd Annual EJK Book Award Ceremony on April 12, 2018, During Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival The Ezra Jack Ke...