• His work traveled around the world as part of a United States State Department Exhibit.
• Keats was the first designer (by invitation) of greeting cards for UNICEF.
• A retrospective of Keats’s art was featured at the New York Public Library and at the Children’s Library of Manhattan.
• A novel Imagination Playground was set up by the Prospect Park Alliance in Brooklyn, New York, based on the characters from Keats’s books. The centerpiece is a much visited bronze statue of Peter, reading The Snowy Day while sitting on a rock, with one hand on his pet dog Willie, and his little chair (from Peter’s Chair) nearby.
• Keats is commemorated with a flagstone in the Celebrity Walk in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
• He was an invited speaker at the Iran International Book Festival.
• Japan named an ice-skating rink after him, commemorating the book Skates.
• Keats appeared on television with Fred Rogers several times.
• He was awarded The University of Southern Mississippi Silver Medallion in 1980 during the Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival as outstanding children’s book author-illustrator.
• Portland, Oregon, honored his work with a city-wide parade, as did his readers in Tokyo, Japan.
• Keats' works have been translated into 19 languages, including Japanese, French, Danish, Norwegian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, German, Swedish, Thai, Chinese, and Korean.
• The Ezra Jack Keats International School in Brooklyn was named for him (PS 253)

Books written and illustrated

• A Letter to Amy
• Apt. 3
• Clementina's Cactus
• My Dog is Lost!
• The Snowy Day (winner, Caldecott Medal, 1963)
• Whistle for Willie (honor book, Caldecott Medal)
• John Henry, An American Legend
• Jennie's Hat
• God is in the Mountain
• Peter's Chair
• Goggles! (winner, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award; Hon. Mention, Caldecott Medal)
• Hi, Cat!
• Pet Show!
• Skates!
• Psst! Doggie!
• Dreams
• Kitten for a Day
• Louie
• The Trip
• Maggie and the Pirate
• Louie's Search
• Regards to the Man in the Moon
• One Red Sun

Books illustrated

• Jubilant for Sure (by Elisabeth Hubbard Lansing)
• Indian Two Feet and His Horse (by Margaret Friskey)
• In a Spring Garden (Richard Lewis, editor)
• The Little Drummer Boy (by Katherine Davis, Henry Ohorati and Harry Simeone)
• Over in the Meadow (by Olive A. Wadsworth)
• The King's Fountain (by Lloyd Alexander)
• The Naughty Boy: A Poem (by John Keats)
• Tia Maria's Garden (by Ann Nolan Clark)
• The Chinese Knew (by T.S. Pine and J. Levine)
• The Eskimos Knew (by T. S. Pine and J. Levine)
• The Flying Cow (by Ruth P. Collins)
• Our Rice Village in Cambodia (by R. Tooze)
• Jim Can Swim (by Helen D. Olds)
• The Egyptians Knew (by T.S. Pine and J. Levine)
• Speedy Digs Downside Up (by Maxine W. Kumin)
• Zoo, Where Are You? (by Ann McGovern)
• How to be a Nature Detective (by Millicent E. Selsam)
• In the Park: An Excursion in Four Languages (by Esther R. Hautzig)
• Two Tickets to Freedom: The True Story of Ellen and Willian Craft, Fugitive Slaves (by Florence B. Freedman) ISBN 0-671-65169-2
• Penny Tunes and Princesses (by Myron Levoy)
• The Indians Knew (by T.S.Pine and J. Levine)
• The Peterkin Papers (by Lucretia P. Hale)