Don't You Feel Well, Sam? (Sam Books)

by Amy Hest (Author) Anita Jeram (Illustrator)

Don't You Feel Well, Sam? (Sam Books)
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: Sam Books

This follow-up to the best-selling Kiss Good Night will comfort little ones like a cozy blanket that's tucked in just right. -- Booklist (starred review)

In the little white house, Mrs. Bear is putting Sam to bed, when suddenly -- HCK HCK! coughs Sam. Mrs. Bear gets some syrup. But the syrup tastes bad, and there's too much of it on a too-big spoon, and it's too hard to swallow. What will make Sam feel better? Acclaimed picture-book creators Amy Hest and Anita Jeram revisit Sam and Mrs. Bear as they share a quiet moment of comfort that is enough to conquer the coldest night.

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Just the thing to share with a little one struggling with a bout of the sniffles. (Picture book. 2-6)

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Review quotes

Parents will relate to the difficulties of coaxing a child to take a spoonful of medicine, while Anita Jeram—illustrator of GUESS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU—provides beautifully reassuring art.
—Scholastic Parent & Child

This follow-up to the best-selling KISS GOODNIGHT (2001) will comfort little ones like a cozy blanket that's tucked in just right . . . A quiet, shining story of things made better.
—Booklist (starred review)

The bedtime comfort this book may bring to a 4-year-old is magical . . . this book could fit into the same treasure chest that keeps, forever, a book like Clement Hurd and Margaret Wise Brown's GOODNIGHT, MOON.
—Boston Globe

Just the thing to share with a little one struggling with a bout of the sniffles.
—Kirkus Reviews

Amy Hest
Amy Hest is the author of many books, including WHEN JESSIE CAME ACROSS THE SEA, winner of the Christopher Medal and illustrated by P. J. Lynch, and IN THE RAIN WITH BABY DUCK, winner of the BOSTON GLOBE - HORN BOOK Award and illustrated by Jill Barton. She says that she was inspired by her own son, Sam. "When Sam was small he knew countless ways to keep me in his room at bedtime," she remembers.

Anita Jeram is the illustrator of the best-selling GUESS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU by Sam McBratney. She is also the author-illustrator of BUNNY, MY HONEY and ALL TOGETHER NOW. About KISS GOOD NIGHT, she says it reminds her of when "the children and I are comfortable and safe, tucked up snug in bed, listening to the rain outside the window and everything around seems to glow with the warmth."
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780763624088
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Candlewick Press (MA)
Publication date
February 13, 2007
Series
Sam Books
BISAC categories
JUV002030 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Bears
JUV010000 - Juvenile Fiction | Bedtime & Dreams
JUV015000 - Juvenile Fiction | Health & Daily Living | General
Library of Congress categories
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