And the winner is...A Sick Day for Amos McGee. On January 10, 2011 the American Library Association announced their youth media awards which included the Caldecott medal for the illustrations in a picture book. This year's winner is a new illustrator from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Erin Stead.
Amos McGee goes to work every day following the same routine. He fixes his breakfast, drinks his tea, takes the bus to his job at the zoo, does his job and then spends time with his animal friends. He plays chess with the elephant, races a tortoise, keeps a penguin company, and reads stories to an owl who is afraid of the dark. So what happens when Amos gets a cold and does not go to work? Read A Sick Day for Amos McGee and see how the animals return the kindness that Amos always shows them.
