Red Clover Winner!

For the past 10 weeks students in grades K-3 (and a small selection of 4th graders) have been reading books on this year's Vermont children's' choice list, aka The Red Clover books. Each year there are 10 new picture books to read and discuss and then the students get to vote on their favorite story.

The hands-down winner at Oak Grove this year was the World's Greatest Lion by Ralph Helfer. It is based on the true story of a lion cub that was rescued in Zambia after a close brush with death, and came to live on Ralph Helfer's Africa USA dance. There he was trained and ended up being featured in several Hollywood movies.

Turns out that our Oak Grove students are right in step with everyone else, because Vermont kids from all around the state voted The World's Greatest Lion as this year's Red Clover Winner.

Give this heart-tugging story a read and then another one. There's lots to look at and lots to wonder about. I'm sure Zamba's movies can be found on netflix or other movie sources and more information about Zamba and Ralph Helfer can be found online. This is a story that sticks with you.