First Week of School

Every year is a new beginning for our students at Southmost Elementary. Our first week of school started off with a smooth beginning. It is great seeing our returning students as well as new faces. Although the library is not open until next week, there have been many kids stop by to say hello and take a quick tour of the library. Let's get ready for a new year and new opportunities to reach our reading goals. Go Southmost Warriors!

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 Gág, Wanda AR Quiz No. 6128 EN Fiction  IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 0.5  AR Quiz Types: RP  Rating:  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.'