Philip and Erin Stead are the collaborative duo behind A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Roaring Brook, 2010), winner of the 2011 Caldecott Medal. Together and separately they have created more than twenty books for children.
“Once upon a time, in a faraway land across the big sea, there was a very old city,” the old man with the very thick glasses said in his very thick accent. “It bordered on some woods and there, in a little house close to them, many many...