THE BEST SICK DAY EVER and the animals in the
zoo feature in this striking picture book debut. Friends come
in all sorts of shapes and sizes. In Amos McGee’s case, all
sorts of species, too! Every day he spends a little bit of
time with each of his friends at the zoo, running races with
the tortoise, keeping the shy penguin company, and even
reading bedtime stories to the owl. But when Amos is too
sick to make it to the zoo, his animal friends decide it’s
time they returned the favor.
“Observant readers will notice tiny surprises
hidden in plain sight: a red balloon, a tiny mouse and
sparrow popping up here and there in the story. Erin E.
Stead, the illustrator, overlays her pencil sketches with
gentle tones of pink, peach, blue and green, and bright red
spots that belie the deceptive ordinariness of the text.” –The
New York Times Book Review
Erin Stead - Woodblock Process
Illustrator Erin Stead talks about the
process of creating the artwork for her Caldecott-winning
picture book, A SICK DAY FOR AMOS MCGEE.
The movement of the train rocked me
like a lullaby. I closed my eyes to the dusty
countryside and imagined the sign I’d seen only in
Gideon’s stories: Manifest—A Town with a rich past
and a bright future.
Powerful in its simplicity and rich in historical
detail, Clare Vanderpool’s debut is a gripping story
of loss and redemption.
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