Monday, May 2, 2016

Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag



Millions of Cats, a fantastical tale by Wanda Gag, is a story about an old couple that is faced with the very difficult problem of finding the world's prettiest cat. The old man and woman in the story decide they need a cat to make them happy and only the prettiest cat will do. But when the old man looks out across the land filled with millions of cats, he decides he simply must take them all home because he cannot decide which one is prettiest—they all seem equally pretty in their own way. The old woman, however, realizing the impracticality of picking so many cats, decides that the cats might be better judges of their own prettiness than either she or her husband and insists that they pick amongst themselves the prettiest one. When the cats prove incapable of picking one cat, they eat each other up, until only the homeliest kitten is left. Interestingly, it is this scraggly, ugly kitten that turns out to be the prettiest cat in the whole world in the eyes of the old couple, but only after it has been nursed back to health.
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Millions of Cats
Millions of Cats
Gág, Wanda
AR Quiz No. 6128 EN Fiction
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 0.5
Accelerated Reader Quiz Type Information AR Quiz Types: RP
Book Rating Rating: 3.5
How can an old man and his wife select one cat from a choice of millions and trillions? Universally recognized as the first American 'picture book.'


Monday, April 25, 2016

Dale, Dale, Dale by Rene Saldana, Illustrated by Carolyn Dee Flores


Dale, Dale, Dale is a counting book that tells a simple tale of a young boy wrapped up in the excitement of his birthday party. He counts down items, from his one pinata, to the three tables for the guests, all the way to the twelve kids waiting to hit the pinata at the end.

Carolyn Dee Flores' illustrations are vivid and very true to life. It is almost as if you are looking through a birthday scrapbook.

Dale, dale, dale: Una fiesta de números
Dale, dale, dale: Una fiesta de números
Saldaña Jr., René
AR Quiz No. 166958 SP Fiction
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 0.5
Accelerated Reader Quiz Type Information AR Quiz Types: RP
Book Rating Rating: 3.5
Un niño celebra su cumpleaños y aprovecha para contar todos los elementos que le ayudarán a tener una fiesta increíble.

Pinata Coloring Page

Here is our version of Saldana's book read by our Pre-Kinder and Kinder students. Enjoy!