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A sick day for Amos McGee

Summary: "Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day--'Ah-choo!'--he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests."--Dust jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781596434028 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 1596434023 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: print
    1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 23 x 25 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Roaring Brook, 2010.
  • Badges:
    • Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 2 / 5.0

Content descriptions

Awards Note:
Caldecott Medal book, 2011.
Subject: Zoo keepers Fiction
Zoo animals Fiction
Sick Fiction

Available copies

  • 5 of 6 copies available at Kenton County.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
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Covington Branch E STEAD P (Text) 33126017981345 Easy Available -
Covington Branch E STEAD P (Text) 33126018871800 Easy Available -
Covington Branch E STEAD P (Text) 33126024654943 Easy Available -
Erlanger Branch Ep-b STEAD P (Text) 33126021242569 Easy Paperbacks with Audio Available -
Independence Branch E STEAD P (Text) 33126016336178 Easy Available -
Independence Branch Ep-b STEAD P (Text) 33126021242577 Easy Paperbacks with Audio Checked out 05/07/2024

  • Baker & Taylor
    Zookeeper Amos McGee always makes time to visit his friends who live at the zoo until the day he stays home because he is sick.
  • Baker & Taylor
    Amos McGee, a friendly zoo keeper, always makes time to visit his animal friends, but when he becomes sick and cannot come in to work, the animals pay him a visit instead.
  • Baker & Taylor
    Amos, who spends time with the animals at the zoo everyday, learns the true meaning of friendship when he is too sick to make it to the zoo and the animals come calling to cheer him up. Jr Lib Guild.
  • McMillan Palgrave

    THE BEST SICK DAY EVER and the animals in the zoo feature in this striking picture book debut.

    Friends come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. In Amos McGee's case, all sorts of species, too! Every day he spends a little bit of time with each of his friends at the zoo, running races with the tortoise, keeping the shy penguin company, and even reading bedtime stories to the owl. But when Amos is too sick to make it to the zoo, his animal friends decide it's time they returned the favor.

    A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead and Erin E. Stead is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year and the winner of the 2011 Caldecott Medal. This title has Common Core connections.

  • McMillan Palgrave

    THE BEST SICK DAY EVER and the animals in the zoo feature in this striking picture book debut.

    Friends come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. In Amos McGee's case, all sorts of species, too! Every day he spends a little bit of time with each of his friends at the zoo, running races with the tortoise, keeping the shy penguin company, and even reading bedtime stories to the owl. But when Amos is too sick to make it to the zoo, his animal friends decide it's time they returned the favor.

    A Sick Day for Amos McGee is the winner of the 2011 Caldecott Medal.


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