Cat Ears on Elizabeth

By Rachel Vail and Paige Keiser

Cat Ears on Elizabeth is the third in Rachel Vail's A Is for Elizabeth chapter book series--featuring illustrations by Paige Keiser.

Cat ears on your headband is not the only way to look great.
But it is a very good way.

Mallory has glitter folders and bright orange sneakers and a huge pink eraser.
And Mallory has cat ears on her headband.

Then Anna comes to school with cat ears on her headband, too.
Everybody loves how they look in those cat-ear headbands.

Especially Elizabeth.

Elizabeth doesn’t have cat ears on her anything.
She doesn’t even have any headband at all anymore. (They squish her head too much).

Elizabeth needs a cat-ears headband! It’s an emergency!

Maybe a surprise I Love You present from her grandparents will fix everything.

Or maybe Elizabeth doesn’t need to be fixed at all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
• Release date: May 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781250162212

Rachel Vail

Rachel Vail is the award-winning author of the critically acclaimed novels If We Kiss and Lucky, Gorgeous, and Brilliant (the Avery sisters trilogy) and more than a dozen other novels for young teens, including the Friendship Ring series. Rachel has also written many beloved picture books, including Piggy Bunny and Sometimes I'm Bombaloo, and two hit novels for elementary school kids, Justin Case: School, Drool, and Other Daily Disasters; and Justin Case: Shells, Smells, and the Horrible Flip-Flops of Doom. Rachel lives in New York City with her husband and their two sons.

Book preview

Chapter 1

In second grade, we all look great!

It is not only Mallory who looks great.

That’s what Ms. Patel says.

Ms. Patel is our Class 2B teacher.

She is very beautiful.

She has mooshy-gooshy arms.

She has smile-crinkles near her eyes.

And earrings. Sometimes she has a barrette in her hair.

We all look different, Ms. Patel said yesterday.

But everybody in the whole second grade looks GREAT!

Mallory has glitter folders and bright orange sneakers and a huge pink eraser.

And Mallory has cat ears on her headband.

Chapter 2

Today Anna came to school with cat ears on her headband, too.

She was showing it off to everybody, all day.

You look great, Mallory told Anna.

We both do! said Anna. We both look great!

They jumped around in a circle holding hands, yelling, Don’t we look great?

Yes! Bucky told them. You look like cats! I love cats!