Sick Day for Amos Mcgee by Philip C Stead

Sick Day for Amos Mcgee by Philip C Stead

A sumptuous new gift edition of the Caldecott Medal winning classic, which includes a cloth-bound slipcase and book.

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.

Written by Philip C. Stead with illustrations by Erin E. Stead, A Sick Day for Amos McGee is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year and the winner of the 2011 Caldecott Medal.

MARGERY WILLIAMS was born in London in 1881 and first came to the United States at the age of nine. For the rest of her life, she lived alternately in England and America. Her first novel was published when she was twenty-one, but she turned to writing for children in 1922 with the publication by Doubleday of The Velveteen Rabbit, the first and best-known of her thirty books for young people. Toward the end of her life, she lived in Greenwich Village, New York. She died there in 1944.

ERIN STEAD is the illustrator of nine highly-acclaimed picture books: the Caldecott Medal-winning A Sick Day for Amos McGee; the New York Timesbestseller The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine; Tony; And Then It's Spring; Bear Has a Story to Tell; Lenny & Lucy; If You Want to See a Whale; The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles; and Music for Mr. Moon. She lives in Michigan with her husband, author/illustrator Philip Stead. Visit Erin online at erinstead.com.

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ISBN 13	9781596434028
ISBN 10	1596434023
Title	Sick Day for Amos Mcgee
Author	Philip C Stead
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Roaring Brook Press
Year published	2010-05-25
Number of pages	32
Prizes	Winner of Caldecott Medal 2011, Commended for Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (Up to Seven) 2011, Commended for Cybils (Fiction Picture Book) 2010, Commended for Charlotte Zolotow Award 2011, Short-listed for Monarch Award 2013, Short-listed for Golden Archer Award (Primary) 2012
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