Philip C. Stead is the author of the 2011 Caldecott Medal winner, A Sick Day for Amos McGee , as well as Bear Has a Story to Tell , an E. B. White Honor book. Books that he has written and illustrated include Creamed Tuna Fish and Peas on Toast ; Jonathan and the Big Blue Boat ; A Home for Bird ; Hello, My Name Is Ruby ; Sebastian and the Balloon; Ideas Are All Around; and Samson in the Snow. Philip lives with his wife, illustrator Erin E. Stead, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
