Erin E. Stead
Birth date: January 01, 1982
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When a zoo keeper named Amos McGee has to take a sick day his animal friends go to visit and help him the way that he always helps them. The book goes through Amos McGee's daily routine and the animals reactions and actions the day Amos does not come into work. This is such sweet book that shows the...
When K picked this book out I thought it would be more a good story getting us ready for Spring. The book seemed dull to me and maybe that was because it wasn't brightly colored and I am use to reading books that are. Plus the boy never looked happy. This little boy is planting seeds and waiting for...
I’ve been interested recently in books about the seasons, or that tie into them in some way. Fogliano and Stead have created a wonderful little book about spring coming, which is just the sort of thing I like. Spare, poetic language (this is how you do poetry in picture books) and spare, gentle illu...
This reminds me of the way Peter Rabbit is structured. The ending of the story suggests that there is a 'message' (in this case, something like 'just be patient and the green spring will come'). But the entire arc of the story, all the memory and the interesting things that happen, happens in the m...
This book brings me to the critique of the ALA award system. I realize that the committee is not compelled to give an award if they don't think there was a great book that year, but I'd really like to see an award with medium-range scope. 3-5 years instead of every year. I don't think this book is g...
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