Naming the Cat

A cute picture book. A family finds a new cat and decides to keep it. However, they simply can not decide on a name. They decide to wait a while and see if a name comes to them. They have many ideas but nothing seems exactly right. Finally they settle on the perfect name! A great read for a beggining reader! Very colorful and amusing illustrations.

Perfect choice for anyone struggling to name a pet. A stray cat came to their house, they asked around and after not finding an owner they decided to keep the cat as a pet. The family struggles with naming their new pet, a male cat. Everyone suggested names but they never felt it was a perfect choice. After the cat was lucky to not to break a vase, lucky to get away from a dog and lucky to land on his feet after falling, they decided on a name. Their new pet cat's name is LUCKY. Sometimes people come up with names for their pets when they least expect it. This would be a good story to do an interactive reading with because students can come up with ideas for names for the cat , as well as guess what name the family will choose. I show more recommend this book for grades k-3. show less

A little cat wandered up to a family's home. They tried to find who it belonged to but couldn't find it's owner. The family decided to keep the cat but couldn't come up with a name. During that time, lucky things kept happening to the cat. In the end they decided to name him Lucky. I enjoyed this story. Picking out a name for a pet is never easy and this story showed that.

This book can be read and used as mentor text to teach a writing lesson. This story is a good read aloud that students can be able to relate to if they have a pet. Students can refer to this story to remember the time they got to name one of their pets.

This story is about a family who finds a cat. They try to decide on a name for the cat but nothing seems to fit him, so they decide that he will make a name for himself sooner or later. One day he knocks over a glass vase but is lucky enough not to break it. Then, one day he goes outside and almost gets attacked by a dog but runs back inside just in time. Then, one day the little girl brings the cat to school and he jumps out the window but luckily does not get hurt. At the end of the book the family decides to name the cat Lucky because he had been lucky in so many situations.

A stray cat came to a family's house and they kept him because he didn't belong to anyone else. When it was time for them to name him, no one could think of anything that fit him. So, they waited to name him. The cat almost got hurt about three times and they kept telling him how lucky he was, so they named him Lucky.

This book begins with a cat that just shows up at a family's door. The family let the cat in and gave it some milk. They went around the neighborhood trying to see if the cat belonged to anyone, but it didn't. The family takes the cat in but cannot think of what to name him. They think of so many names but they do not feel that the names suit him. The family decides that they should just wait and that a name would eventually come to them. Then cat is very active and he liked to chase things. He was chasing a fly and knocked a vase over but luckily it landed on the coach and not on the floor. Then the little boy takes the cat to school but when everyone started toaching him, he gets scared so he jumped out the window but luckily he was show more able to land on his feet in the sand box on the playground. In the end, the family realizes that the cat is very lucky so that is what they name him. show less