Alphabatics
10 best books like Alphabatics (Suse MacDonald): Alphabet City, The Lion and the Mouse, The Watermelon Seed, More More More Said the Baby, Wolf in the Snow, Ten, Nine, Eight, The Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Book, Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals, Green Eyes (Family Storytime), The Graphic Alphabet
| Author | Stephen T. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0670856312 |
The urban landscape will never look the same again. As Stephen T. Johnson demonstrates in a series of strikingly realistic pastels and watercolors, a simple sawhorse can contain the letter "A" — while lampposts alongside a highway can form a row of elegant, soaring Ys. A 1996 Caldecott Honor book,...
| Author | Jerry Pinkney |
| ISBN | 0316013560 |
In award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney's wordless adaptation of one of Aesop's most beloved fables, an unlikely pair learn that no act of kindness is ever wasted. After a ferocious lion spares a cowering mouse that he'd planned to eat, the mouse later comes to his rescue, freeing him from a poacher's...
| Author | Greg Pizzoli |
| ISBN | 1423171012 |
With perfect comic pacing, Greg Pizzoli introduces us to one funny crocodile who has one big fear: swallowing a watermelon seed. What will he do when his greatest fear is realized? Will vines sprout out his ears? Will his skin turn pink? This crocodile has a wild imagination that kids will love.
With...
More More More Said the Baby
| Author | Vera B. Williams |
| ISBN | 0688147364 |
From beneath the tickles, kisses, and unfettered affection showered on them by grownups, the children in Vera B. Williams' Caldecott Honor Book cry out for more more more! The stars of three little love stories - toddlers with nicknames like "Little Pumpkin" - run giggling until they are scooped up...
| Author | Matthew Cordell |
| ISBN | 1250076366 |
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A little girl is leaving school for the day and has to endure a really bad snowstorm on the way home. As she begins her journey, she stumbles upon a wolf pack and a little wolf cub that appears...
| Author | Molly Bang |
| ISBN | 0688149014 |
This is a simple and sweet beginning number book counting down from 10 to 1 and then going to bed. I am not crazy about the artwork, but the painting of the 10 toes was beautiful. I’m not sure what it was, but it didn’t work for me personally. I think this is great for very young children, but it was way to...
| Author | Lisa Campbell Ernst |
| ISBN | 0689856857 |
The Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Book is written by Lisa Campbell Ernst. This book helps to teach letters to young students or even ELL students. Each page contains a letter in the alphabet, first starting with A and ending at the end of the book with Z. As you look at each letter, there are 4 sentences...
| Author | Fritz Eichenberg |
| ISBN | 0808585169 |
A beginning rhyming alphabet book for young kids, but older kids can enjoy the zaniness of these rhymes. The artwork is detailed and interesting from the 50s. I think it’s very lovely. The rhyme is like the title on each page, short and to the point. There is a ‘Nag with a Bag’ and a ‘Pig with a Wig’,...
| Author | Abe Birnbaum |
| ISBN | 0307202038 |
Caldecott Honor winning illustrator, A. Birnbaum has captured the childlike wonder of each season in this 1953 picture book. Green Eyes, the curious kitten, ventures beyond his familiar big red box and greets spring, summer, fall, and winter—each with their unique colors, scents, and feelings....
| Author | David Pelletier |
| ISBN | 0531360016 |
A beginning alphabet book with each letter somehow using a graphic representation of a word that starts with that letter. Like ’S’ had steps carved into the letter, or ’T’ was tripping over a dot. Some letters you can see more and some letters are more abstract like C in a circle.
The Caldecott...
"You will reach the far-off land if you keep hope alive within you." The words of Magic Frog give courage to the young mouse on his long and perilous journey to reach the wonderful land of legend. He faces many obstacles on his quest and sacrifices much to help others in need. But the mouse's compassion and...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0698116445 |
Largely ignored by her own family, Princess Djeow Seow spends her days playing with a kite made from paper and sticks. But when the Emperor is imprisoned in a high tower, only the Princess can save the day, flying her kite high up into the sky to rescue her father.
"A familiar jewel polished to unaccustomed...
It’s the circle of Life. This story is simple and very profound for the very young. I don’t understand the artwork though. It is simple like the story with a white cat and black cat, but surely as an award of children’s art in storytelling, this should not have been considered. I really don’t understand....
| Author | Tana Hoban |
| ISBN | 0688147402 |
Review: This is a very colorful picture book. It has pictures of shapes that are all around us, inside and outside. The book has concrete shapes and also shapes that are harder to see. This book could be used for beginners and children who are a bit more advance since it has a variety of pictures.
Utilization:...
I don’t like the artwork here. It is very different than anything we have seen, but I don’t think that makes it Caldecott worthy. I do think the story is funny and well done.
Cat wants to eat mouse so he invites him over for dinner and bring a friend. Mouse is too smart for this and brings dog. It’s...
| Author | Byrd Baylor |
| ISBN | 0689711050 |
You may think of the desert as a harsh, dry place where no one would ever want to live -- but think again. The Desert People know. so do the animals. Both love the land, and "share the feeling of being brothers in the desert, of being desert creatures together." Byrd Baylor's spare, poetic text and Peter...
The Village of Round and Square Houses
| Author | Ann Grifalconi |
| ISBN | 0333485211 |
I loved this great tale. It is set among the Cameroon people and I had a cousin who did a peace corps assignment in the country of Cameroon. I feel like I have some stories to go with the country. I got to see pictures of her village, but I did not notice or remember that her village had round and square houses,...
