![]() ![]() The pages are filled to the gills with pictures of things that start with that letter as well. The book is an alphabet book on steroids! Each page had a wonderful paragraph in each letter such as “Lazy Lions lounging in the local library.” for the letter L. Awesome book for toddlers on up !Īnimalia by Graeme Base is iconic in teaching circles, you can lose yourself for hours in the detailed illustrations. It”™s such a cute gimmick and so effective while reading that it”™s not a gimmick at all! At the end of the book all the children pass the items back down the alphabet and everyone gets what they want. Each letter is represented by a child who has something that starts with the same letter as their name but doesn”™t have what they want which starts with the following letter. The words used are things like Japanese Garden for J, Lawn Ornaments for L ,and my favorite was Underground for U complete with cool illustrations of worms, root vegetables and roots !Īlphabetter by Dan Bar-el and Graham Ross is another great alphabet book for you to check out. Your little paleontologist might even discover a few dinosaurs they”™ve never heard of before.Ī Gardener”™s Alphabet by Mary Azarian is a fresh and so richly illustrated alphabet book you may end up framing the beautiful pages because they are worthy of being up on a wall! I think the main benefit of this book is that the words chosen for each letter are not the same old ones you see over and over in alphabet books. The dinosaurs are illustrated with a large colourful letter of the alphabet and the name appears below (first letter emphasized). This large format board book shares 26 dinosaur species, one for each letter of the alphabet. Some of the words the letters represent may be challenging for preschoolers, but the illustrations are clear and your child won”™t have too hard a time finding the letter in the picture.ĪBCDinosaurs Get kids excited about their alphabet using their love of dinosaurs with the ABCDinsosaurs board book from the American Museum of Natural History. Along his travels he encounters all the other letters. Z Goes Home by Jon Agee follows the letter Z from the time he leaps down from the sign at the zoo until he makes his way home. Books are listed alphabetically by author.Īll our book lists contain affiliate links. This article was amended on 3 December 2018: there is only one word in the English language starting with a silent B, not D.Below you will find an exhaustive list of reviews that expand on our 50 Fantastic Alphabet Books. ![]() More copies of P is for Pterodactyl are expected to be available in December. “It brings out the word nerd in everybody.” “Kids really do love big unwieldy words – when we point at the cover of the book, even the three or four-year-old just learning to read will be, like: ‘Pterodactyl!’,” he said. Haldar, whose own favourite was “T is for Tsunami”, said he was was glad the book had not underestimated children’s interest. Folks can get the book to figure that out.” “For the letter B there is only one word in the English language starting with a silent B. “There are plenty of silent-first-letter words, but there are letters where there are very few examples and we had to come up with creative ways to think within the rubric of what we were trying to do,” he said. Haldar admitted that he and Carpenter had struggled with some letters. Silent letters and absurd homophones can be incredibly maddening for all of us, but especially for kids just learning their ABCs or how to read,” she said. “Word nerds, like me, love to argue about the complexities of the English language. Illustrator Maria Tina Beddia came on board, and they found a publisher in Sourcebooks, where editorial director Kelly Barrales-Saylor called the concept a “completely fresh take” on a standard alphabet book. We were joking about that and started talking about how it would be even sillier if an entire alphabet hinged on silent letters.”įor a while, they just populated a Google document with words as they thought them up, but “what started to come to light was that the words in this document were implying a really rich universe that would make an awesome kids’ book – gnomes and knights and tsars”. “We were laughing about how it phonetically sounds weird – plus, I didn’t have quinoa until I was, like, 25. We got to Q, and Q was for quinoa,” said Haldar. “Each one was of a food, so we were looking through them and reading them to our friends’ kid Isaac. He and Carpenter came up with the idea after having lunch with a friend whose child had brought some alphabet flash cards with him. View image in fullscreen Chalking up strong sales … a page from P Is for Pterodactyl. ![]()
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