Three Cheers for Catherine the Great by Cari Best

Title: Three Cheers for Catherine the Great

Author:   Cari Best    

Illustrator:   Giselle Potter    

Publisher:   DK Ink  

Year: 1999

Awards/Accolades:

Best Children's Books of the Year, 2000 ; Bank Street College of Education

Booklist Book Review Stars, September 15, 1999 ; American Library AssociationBooklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 1999 ; American Library AssociationNotable Children's Books in the Language Arts, 2000 ; NCTE Children's Literature AssemblyNotable Children's Books, 2000 ; ALSC American Library AssociationPublishers Weekly Book Review Stars, July 1999 ;
Volunteer State Book Award, 2001-2002; Nominee 
Charlotte Zolotow Award, 2000 Honor Book

Summary:
When Grandma, Catherine the Great to her family, decides she wants NO PRESENTS for her birthday, Sara searches for the perfect no-present. Others give dances and poems and songs, but Sara's gift is the English language - she will help Grandma learn English

Use in Classroom/Library:
Read aloud

Curriculum Connections:

Lesson from Reading to Kids
Language: talk about learning a language and how it migt be hard to live where you don't know the language.

This title is in the Saint Joseph School Library.