1. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Stead, Philip Christian, and Erin E. Stead. A Sick Day For Amos McGee. Roaring Brook, 2012.
2. PLOT SUMMARY
This is a very touching book about friendship and what it is to be a friend. The story follows an older gentleman, Amos McGee, during his daily job of visiting all of his friends at the Zoo. One day, Amos is too ill to visit his friends so they come to him.
3. CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Phillip Stead offers a very well written story about friendship. The story follows a pattern that is beneficial for many young readers. He writes in a way that is very touching and humorous. He uses language that is familiar to students but that, for some early readers, may be somewhat challenging.
2. PLOT SUMMARY
This is a very touching book about friendship and what it is to be a friend. The story follows an older gentleman, Amos McGee, during his daily job of visiting all of his friends at the Zoo. One day, Amos is too ill to visit his friends so they come to him.
3. CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Phillip Stead offers a very well written story about friendship. The story follows a pattern that is beneficial for many young readers. He writes in a way that is very touching and humorous. He uses language that is familiar to students but that, for some early readers, may be somewhat challenging.
I enjoy the inferences that Phillip Stead has woven into his writing. “… run races with the tortoise (who never ever lost)…” I also appreciated that as Stead introduces each of Amos’s “friends”, he includes and activity that the two of them do. This offers the opportunity of great discussion in the classroom.
The colors the Erin Stead includes are very soothing and soft. They are paired perfectly with the drawings and create a very calm environment for the story. She uses watercolor, sketching, texture, and color pencil to create a very appealing overall style.
4. REVIEW EXCERPT(S)
This book is a Caldecott Medal winner and winner of the New York Times Book Review “ Best Illustrated Children’s Book” Award
4. REVIEW EXCERPT(S)
This book is a Caldecott Medal winner and winner of the New York Times Book Review “ Best Illustrated Children’s Book” Award
Book List review : “Each scene captures the drama of Amos and the creatures caring for each other..”
School Library Journal boasts: “If you want to give a child a book that will remain with them always (and lead to decades of folks growing up and desperately trying to relocate it with the children’s librarians of the future) this is the one that you want. Marvelous.”
5. CONNECTIONS
This book is a great one to use in a lesson in which you are explaining the mental process or connections that a good reader makes while reading because of the inner dialogue that the book inspires.
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