The Z Was Zapped: A Play in 26 Acts By Chris van Allsburg
This book is in a form of a play and teaches children the alphabet and also adjectives or verbs that start with the same letter. For example, B was badly bitten. F was firmly flattened. Along with that, there is a picture for each letter undergoing some sort of change.
This book is in a form of a play and teaches children the alphabet and also adjectives or verbs that start with the same letter. For example, B was badly bitten. F was firmly flattened. Along with that, there is a picture for each letter undergoing some sort of change.
From Amazon.comK is for Keystone: A Pennsylvania Alphabet by Kristen Kane
-Picture book, Non- Fiction, Geography, Language Arts
-Each letter represented a person, place or idea in PA’s history and has a summary about each. At the end, there is a quiz about what you have read. For example, A is for Amish, G is for Gettysburg, M is for Milton Hershey. This book gives children who live in Pennsylvania a historical background they might have not known about their state. For children who do not live in Pa, this story shows them all of the special and important places and people that make Pennsylvania what it is today.
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Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs by Alan Katz
-This book takes 14 traditional songs that children know and love and transform them into playful parodies that children can relate to. Children can easy sing along "I've Been Cleaning Up My Bedroom" for example because it is in the tune of "I've Been Working on the Railroad." Alan Katz created new fun songs to the same old tunes everyone knows.
-This book takes 14 traditional songs that children know and love and transform them into playful parodies that children can relate to. Children can easy sing along "I've Been Cleaning Up My Bedroom" for example because it is in the tune of "I've Been Working on the Railroad." Alan Katz created new fun songs to the same old tunes everyone knows.
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On Market Street by Anita and Arnold Lobel
This picture book is inspired by 17th century French trade engravings when a lady goes to the market to buy gifts for a "special someone." These gifts aren't typical gifts you would buy today, but it uses each letter of the alphabet to describe what people would have bought in the market long ago. She takes each letter and makes it into a person and then embellishes them with the item she bought relating to that letter. Some things include apples, clocks, quilts, wigs, and zippers.
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To Market, To Market by A. Miranda
The woman goes to the market to buy a pig, hen, goose, trout, lamb, cow, duck, goat but she looses them all throughout her house. The pig was in the kitchen, the lamb on the bed, the cow on the couch, the duck on her head, the hen in the cupboard, the goose in the cupboard, goat in the closet chewing a shoe, trout in the bathtub. She then is so hungry so all of the animals take her to the market to buy potatoes, celery, beets, tomatoes, pea pods, peppers, garlic and spice, cabbage, brown rice, okra, onions, carrots and then they go home again to make some hot soup for lunch.
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Alphabet City by Stephen T. Johnson
This is a wordless picture book showing letters within different things throughout an urban landscape. You really have to look hard and use your imagination to find these letters throughout the book. This book shows children that letters are very important because they can be found in places you would never have expected, such as bridges, lamps, and benches.
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N is for Our Nation's Capital By Marie and Ronald Smith
A Washington, DC Alphabet that explores famous people, historical sites and monuments from DC. This book is just like K is for Keystone only it talks about things in Washington DC such as the White house, Union Station, Cherry Blossoms and the National Zoo.
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom By Bill Martin
The letters of the alphabet race each other to the top of the coconut tree. "A told B and B told C". When all of the letters get to the top of the coconut tree, it weighs too much and they all fall out of the tree. They all try to help each other get up while they are in band aids and bruises. Lots of rhyming and helps with the alphabet.
Dr. Seuss's ABC
Beginner book for children learning the alphabet. Each letter are in capital and then lowercase. Then there is a picture of something that goes along with each letter. It also asks children what starts with the letter C, for example. Then the book shows different items that go along with that letter. Alot of rhyming.
Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert
"Apple to Zucchini, come take a look. Start eating your way through this alphabet book." Each page has a different type of fruit or vegetable to go along with the letter of the alphabet. The words are shown in capital and lowercase letters. At the end of the book, there is a glossary that includes pronunciation, botanical information, the origin and history of the fruit or veggie with a picture to remind the reader of what the plant looks like.
The Llama Who Had No Pajama: 100 Favorite Poems By Mary Ann Hoberman
All different types of poems about things like centipedes, whales, brothers, swings, ice skating, eating applesauce, birthdays and other things a child experiences during their childhood. There is a table of contents to find different poems throughout the book.
I Spy: An Alphabet In Art By Lucy Micklethwait
Each page as each letter of the alphabet in Capital and lowercase and starts off with 'I spy with my little eye something beginning with...." There is then a famous work of art for each letter on each page that children have to guess which object they are talking about. Really interactive and fun.
The Alphabet Tree By Leo Lionni
A strong wind scares the letters of the alphabet and thinks they are going to be blown off the alphabet tree. Helping each other out, they form words so they do not get blown out of the tree. A caterpillar then comes along to teach them how to form sentences. They form the sentence peace on earth. A good way to teach youngesters about spelling out words and forming sentences.
The Turn Around, Upside Down Alphabet Book by Lisa Campbell Ernst
Each letter of the alphabet turns into a different object as you flip the book. Really cool way to teach children about things that start with a certain letter and to show them that reading can be fun by flipping the book in differetn ways.
Eric Carle's ABC
Full page flaps that contain each letter of the alphabet and transform into a different animals that he created his famous way. There are even animals in the book that I havent even heard of. Great way to teach children about not only the alphabet but animals as well.
I Stink! By Kate and Kim McMullan
A garbage truck tells kids about the alphabet in a gross and funny way. All the letters in the alphabet are represented by something found in a garbage truck. Also has large loud sound effects that children can read along with you.
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