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-created A Sick Day for Amos McGee, live in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Erin creates her illustrations using woodblock printing techniques and pencil. To learn more about Erin’s process, read her 2009 interview with Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast by clicking here.

Visit Philip Stead’s blog at www.philipstead.com. Visit Erin on Facebook.

More about Erin:
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast – June 2010
National Public Radio – July 2011
Caldecott Medal Acceptance Speech - July/August 2011
The Horn Book: “Erin E. Stead” by Philip C. Stead – July/August 2011
100 Scope Notes – December 2011

Images by Nicole Haley