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Three Cheers for Catherine the Great!
Contributor(s): Best, Cari (Author), Potter, Giselle (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0374475512     ISBN-13: 9780374475512
Publisher: Sunburst
OUR PRICE:   $7.64  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2003
* Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Sara's Russian grandmother has requested that there be no presents at her 78th birthday party so Sara must think of a gift from her heart. Full color.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction
Dewey: E
LCCN: 2002040804
Lexile Measure: 590
Physical Information: 0.1" H x 9.08" W x 10.28" (0.34 lbs) 32 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 34564
Reading Level: 3.2   Interest Level: Lower Grades   Point Value: 0.5
 
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Publisher Description:

A little English, a little Russian, and a lot of heart make a birthday celebration you won't want to miss When Sara's grandma, Catherine the Great, suddenly announces, This year for my birthday, I want no presents I have music in my Russian bones, and laughing in my heart. I have the day and the night, and I have all of you, Sara is surprised. How can Grandma have a birthday party with no presents? Her mama explains that a NO PRESENT can be anything from a kiss or a hug to a game of gin rummy -- as long as it comes from deep inside you. But what kind of NO PRESENT would be good enough for Catherine the Great? Mr. Minsky, Monica, and her dad, Mary Caruso and her baby, Mimmo, already have good ideas. But it isn't until Sara is surrounded by Grandma's bundles of Russian newspapers and books that she gets her won idea: She will teach Grandma to read and write English. This lively borscht-and-blintzes birthday celebration shows that sometimes NO PRESENTS can be the best presents of all.


Contributor Bio(s): Best, Cari: - Cari Best has written many award-winning picture books, including Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year; and My Three Best Friends and Me, described by the New York Times as "refreshing" and "exciting." Her picture book If I Could Drive, Mama was described by Publishers Weekly as "a wonderful tribute to an imagination in perpetual motion." In the Country of Queens is her first novel. Ms. Best lives in Connecticut.Potter, Giselle: - Giselle Potter has collaborated with Cari Best on books including Beatrice Spells Some Lulus and Learns to Write a Letter and Three Cheers for Catherine the Great!, which was a Booklist Editors' Choice and selected a Best Book of the Year by both Publishers Weekly and Child magazine. Ms. Potter lives in Kingston, New York.