A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead

Amos McGee rises early every morning, swings his legs out of bed, and puts on a fresh-pressed uniform. Every day he goes to his job at City Zoo and visits his friends – the animals. But one day Amos McGee isn’t feeling well. What will the animals do when he doesn’t show up to play with them?

Length: 32 pages
Read-Aloud age: 4+

LJR’s Thoughts on A Sick Day for Amos McGee

A Sick Day for Amos McGee is a sweet picture book about one man’s friendship with the animals at the zoo and what happens when he doesn’t show up to work one day.

This 2011 Caldecott Medal Winner has such sweet illustrations and the story is absolutely adorable.

LJR Rating

Noteworthy for A Sick Day for Amos McGee

In our usual LJR fashion, we try to find anything that Christian families may want to know about ahead of time to address, skip, or dig deeper into. Take a look at what we found below. Our take on Discipleship Opportunities is at the bottom of the review.

A Sick Day for Amos McGee has nothing in it that LJR can see would be an issue. Read away… and often! This is one you won’t mind reading over and over.

Discipleship Opportunities

A Sick Day for Amos McGee shows us how friends take care of each other. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 is one set of verses that work great with this book.
Depending on the age and understanding of your kiddos, you could also use this as an opportunity to dig into Luke 6:27-36, which discusses doing unto others as you would have them do unto you. But it also gives an opportunity to chat about how Jesus would want us to behave if we weren’t friends.

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