It Began with Ah-Choo! Katie Woo Has the Flu by Fran Manushkin

Katy sneezes... and sneezes... and sneezes.

"I feel funny! My tummy hurts, too," says Katie Woo.

"I think you have a bug," said her mom.

Katie protests that she can't have bugs in the her tummy, but Mom explains that means that Katie must be sick with the flu.

Katie feels hot, and the thermometer shows she has a fever.

"Back to bed," said Mom. "No school for you."

And Katie Woo stays in bed all day. Mom brings her a bowl of soup and some toast for lunch, but it tastes awful. Katie feels too sick to eat. Mom brings her some pills that she says will make Katie feel better.

"Pills are such a pill!" moans Katie. She's so hot that she feels shivery. At last she falls asleep but her dreams are all bad dreams.

"Boo on the flu!"

But after a few days, Katie wakes up feeling better. Soup and toast taste like the best food in the world. She talks on the phone to her friend Jojo.

"I feel like new," says Katie Woo.

Illustrated by Tammie Lyon's winsome pictures of the little patient, Fran Manushkin's Katie Woo Has the Flu (Picture Window Books) gives her spunky heroine a chance to say Shoo to the Flu in this story of the inevitable sick days of the school year in this easy-reading story.   For a Woo duo, pair this one with Manushkin's Katie Woo, Where Are You?

Sick Day: The Day Snuffy Had the Sniffles (Sesame Street) by Linda Lee Maiifair

Oscar the Grouch popped out of his can just in time to see big Bird skipping down Sesame Street.

"Go away, Bird! It's time to collect the trash. I'm too busy to talk to you!"

Why?

But Big Bird is on a mission to see Snuffy, who's sniffly and needs some cheering up. When Cookie Monster shows up, he explains that he's waiting for Oscar's present for Snuffy.

What?

Then Bert passes by and says he has just the thing for Old Snuffy and tells Bird to wait right there.

How long?

"At this rate I'll never get to see Snuffy," Big Bird frets.

But soon Cookie Monster appears with a slightly dirty cookie, and Oscar offers something green and vaguely lumpy. Old Bear comes bringing his heirloom family cure for the common cold--sardine and sauerkraut soup! for Snuffy. BLEECH! Betty Lou from the library sends some books and The Count counts up all the things Big Bird has to carry and adds a box of tissues. And then Gladys the Cow offers a pint of ice cream that's already melting! Yikes!

Now Big Bird has to hustle to make it to Snuffy's house, in Sesame Street: The Day Snuffy Had the Sniffles with Full-Color Poster Inside (Storybook Classics) (Random House, 2019). But it's the thought that counts, and Snuffy is happy to see Big Bird and know his friends care! Share this sniffles story with Barbara Bottner's 2019 What a Cold Needs (read review here).