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Erin Stead

Biography

Erin Stead

Erin Stead is the Caldecott Medal winning illustrator of A SICK DAY FOR AMOS MCGEE, also named a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2010 and a Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book of 2010 (A Neal Porter Book, Roaring Brook Press, 2010). She and her husband, author and artist Philip Stead, with whom she co-createdA SICK DAY FOR AMOS MCGEE and BEAR HAS A STORY TO TELL, live in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  BEAR HAS A STORY TO TELL was named a Best Children’s Book of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews. Erin also illustrated  AND THEN IT'S SPRING written by Julie Fogliano and named a 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book and a Best Children’s Book of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly.

 

Erin Stead