My Trip to the Hospital

My Trip to the Hospital by Mercer Mayer
This is Little Critters story about what happened when he broke his leg at a soccer game. He goes through each step of going to the hospital, seeing the nurses and doctors, having an x-ray, and getting his cast on. He learns how walk with crutches, and then all his friends get to sign his cast when he goes to school. This is a great story to help children understand the sequence of events that often happen when making a trip to the hospital because it includes factual information but also has humor and is done with animals. I especially like the pictures because they correctly depict the environment that hospitals often have. You could use this book for lessons on what it is like to go to the hospital—it can be used for any child but is helpful for children who are expecting to enter the hospital. Because it focuses on a broken leg, this is a great story for a child with a broken bone, or a sibling of a child with a broken bone.