Caldecott winners announced

Today the American Library Association announced this year's winners of the Randoph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children.

Drumroll .....................

A Sick Day for Amos McGee

Erin Stead, Illustrator

Philip Christian Stead, Author

a Neal Porter Book, published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing

Congratulations!!!!

(Erin seems to only have a blog, not a website.)

Here is an interview/blog post on Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast with Erin from last July, which shows more of her work.

There were also two Caldecott honor books named~

Dave the Potter, Artist, Poet Slave

Bryan Collier, illustrator

Laban Carrick Hill, Author

published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.

Interrupting Chicken

David Ezra Stein, author and illustrator

published by Candlewick Press

There were also several additional awards given for literature. To read the full list, please go here.