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Philip Stead

Philip Stead

Caldecott Medal-winning author and illustrator of children's picture books, husband of illustrator Erin Stead; known for "A Sick Day for Amos McGee" and co-author of numerous acclaimed children's books.

Jul 7, 2026

4:56
It just wasn't for you
4:56
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4:56
they just had the right personality for it, and I did not.
4:58
So I, I didn't really have, um, I didn't know where I belonged exactly.
5:05
I ended up getting a job at Zingerman's Deli in Ann Arbor as a staff illustrator.
5:11
So Zingerman's has been around since the early '80s, and ever since the very beginning, they've always had staff artists.
5:18
Um, so originally it was, like, people that would make their handmade signs and things like that, but e- then eventually they had a whole global, um, system of, for, for mail order ca- type of stuff, like sending gourmet foods around, around the planet.

10 MINS LATER

15:19
... books would be.

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