This month saw the release of Erin’s second illustrated title, written with tremendous grace by author and poet Julie Fogliano. “or maybe it was the bears and all that stomping, / because bears can’t read signs / that say things like / ‘please do not stomp here- / (To boot, she visited again in 2010, the year the book was actually released, to share even more.) I have to say, when it won the 2011 Caldecott, you would have heard me screaming, had you been standing outside my home (yeah, I screamed that loudly in happiness and enthusiasm, but wait … why are you standing outside my home?), because back then, in 2009, my smart readers (who possess such good taste) and I all recognized it as the special picture book that it is. Stead (who happens to be her husband), she visited to share some early art and the tools she used to make the illustrations for the book. About a year prior to the release of her Caldecott-winning A Sick Day for Amos McGree, written by Philip C. This isn’t the first time illustrator Erin Stead has visited 7-Imp.
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