A Sick Day for Amos McGee

Yoto Says: The best sick day ever and all the animals in the zoo feature in this award-winning children's classic.

A Sick Day for Amos McGee is a 2011 Bank Street - Children's Book of the Year and the winner of the 2011 Caldecott Medal.

In Amos McGee's case, all sorts of species, too!

Friends come in all sorts of shapes and sizes.

This title has Common Core connections.

Yoto Says: The sick day ever and all the animals in the zoo feature in this award-winning children's classic.

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.

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