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Archive for the 'Alphabet Books' Category

Wed, February 1st, 2012
E-mergency! by Tom Lichtenheld
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan

Cindy: I’ve been immersed in teen lit this year but being the klutz I am, I couldn’t help but notice the cover of E-mergency! (Chronicle 2011) with poor E slipping on a flight of stairs headed straight for O. Oh-no! The importance of the most frequently used letter E is made perfectly clear in this funny story [...]


Thu, January 26th, 2012
An Annoying ABC by Barbara Bottner
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan

Lynn: “It was a quiet morning at preschool until Adelaide annoyed Bailey.”  An escalating alphabetic chain reaction follows right up to the drenching moment when Zelda zaps Adelaide.  Miss Mabel asks Adelaide to apologize and soon calm returns to the school as everyone settles in for story time. Bottner’s delightfully droll disasters are cleverly captured [...]


Mon, July 4th, 2011
If Rocks Could Sing by Leslie McGuirk
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan

Cindy: I collect rocks everywhere I travel (a habit from my grandmother) and I am partial to ones with holes in them, but this collection in If Rocks Could Sing: A Discovered Alphabet (Tricycle Press 2011) really ROCKS. Instead of collecting seashells on her Florida beaches, McGuirk slowly built an alphabet collection of rocks A-Z. [...]


Wed, April 21st, 2010
LMNO Peas by Keith Baker
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan

Lynn: LMNO Peas (S&S/Beach Lane 2010) had me laughing before I even saw the book. Countless small children have sung this section of the alphabet song just this way, including my own sons and grandsons. I kept right on laughing when I read the book because the execution is just as much fun as the [...]


Mon, February 15th, 2010
Lights On Broadway: A Theatrical Tour from A to Z by Harriet Ziefert
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan

Lynn: Cindy saw a review of Lights On Broadway: A Theatrical Tour from A to Z (Blue Apple, 2009) and we got excited about it but somehow it dropped off our radar until we saw it in the booth at Midwinter and got excited all over again. This eye-catching high-voltage picture book defines theater terms [...]


Wed, June 24th, 2009
The Sleepy Little Alphabet: A Bedtime Story from Alphabet Town by Judy Sierra
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan

Lynn: Our focus group is starting to throw their weight around. Ever since we read The Sleepy Little Alphabet (Random/Knopf, June 2009) in galley several months ago, they’ve been asking if we have written about it yet. Explaining that we like to blog books closer to the publication didn’t impress them. They adored this book [...]





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