Felicity Floo Visits the Zoo
by E. S. Redmond
Mockingbird Award Book

Voice 1: Felicity Floo is feeling bad.
Voice 2: Her temperature’s up just a tad.
Voice 3: Her nose is runny and getting red.
Voice 4: Shouldn’t she really be at home in bed?
Felicity: No, today is the day that I go to the zoo!
All: Go to the zoo? YOU?
Felicity: You want to come, too?
Voice 1: But Felicity, look at your nose!
Voice 2: It’s runny and icky and red as a rose!
Voice 3: And out of it’s coming gloppy, green goo!
Voice 4: You need a big box of strong tissue!
Felicity: That’s okay, I just use my hand to wipe off the most.
All: Oooooo. Unbelievable! That’s so gross!
(Continued in the Kids Wings unit.)

Felicity is not careful about sharing the bacteria that made her sick. After she wipes her nose with her hands, she pets the animals, sharing her green goo and making them sick, too.

Written in clever rhyme with hysterical illustrations, Felicity's story has great health lessons about controlling the spread of colds and terrific vocabulary, too!