# A Sick Day for Amos McGee

**Author:** Philip C. Stead
**Grade range:** Grades K–3
**First published:** 2010
**Page count:** 45
**Genre:** Picture Book
**ISBN-13:** `9781596434028`
**ISBN-10:** `1596434023`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/a-sick-day-for-amos-mcgee
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

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.

## Where this book is assigned

### Caldecott Medal

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade — [source: Caldecott Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2011 Caldecott Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 1st grade — [source: Caldecott Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2011 Caldecott Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: Caldecott Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2011 Caldecott Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: Caldecott Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2011 Caldecott Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)

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