The American newspaper The New York Times recognized «Uncle Amos» as the best children’s picture book of 2010, and in 2011, artist Erin Stead received Caldecott, the prestigious American Library Association medal for illustrations for the book.
The American newspaper The New York Times named «Uncle Amos» the best children’s picture book of 2010, and in 2011, artist Erin Stead received the Caldecott, the prestigious medal of the American Library Association, for the book’s illustrations. The young writer Philip Stead wrote the story of Uncle Amos, and Erin, using woodcut and pencil, created amazing pictures: in muted colors, delicately drawn, realistic, but free from glossy flashiness. Reading a story about how Uncle Amos, who works at the zoo, caught a cold, and his friends — an elephant, a rhinoceros, an owl, a penguin and a turtle — went to visit the sick man to play chess with him and drink tea, will not get bored even for adults. The text is full of humor, it has space for writing sequels.
PINK GIRAFFE, 32 p.
Daria Rybina