Want to ease your child into reading? Start him out with Alphabet Tales. Each tale tells a story about how the letter came to have its shape and sound, creating a humorous and unforgettable learning experience. Embedding learning in stories makes it nearly impossible for any child to forget the all-important story content. Charming full-color illustrations enhance this learning/story time for all types of learners, but especially for visual, right-brained, kinesthetic learners.
Perfect for gift-giving, here isTHE alphabet book to top all others, an over-sized work of brilliance from the illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestselling The Day the Crayons Quit! If words make up the stories and letters make up the words, then stories are made up of letters. In this menagerie we have stories made of words, made FOR all the letters. The most inventive and irresistible book of the year spans a mere 26 letters (don't they all!) and 112 pages. From an Astronaut who's afraid of heights, to a Bridge that ends up burned between friends, to a Cup stuck in a cupboard and longing for freedom, Once Upon an Alphabet is a creative tour de force from A through Z. Slyly funny in a way kids can't resist, and gorgeously illustrated in a way readers of all ages will pour over, this series of interconnected stories and characters explores the alphabet in a way that will forever raise the bar. In Once Upon an Alphabet, #1 New York Times bestseller Oliver Jeffers has created a stunning collection of words and artwork that is a story book, alphabet book, and gorgeously designed art book all in one. Praise for ONCE UPON AN ALPHABET: An Amazon Best Book of 2014! A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year! A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year! A New York Times Bestseller! * "The silly, spare, slightly surreal text occasionally rhymes and endlessly surprises. An utterly delightful alphabet book."–Kirkus Review, starred review * "With wry humor, equally droll ink illustrations, and a solid dose of alliteration, Jeffers creates delightful mini-narratives for each letter of the alphabet."–Publishers Weekly, starred review * "An altogether stimulating, surprising, and satisfying reading experience."–School Library Journal, starred review * "Whimsical, funny, occasionally tragic, and highly entertaining, this collection of (sometimes) interlocking tales is brilliantly inventive."–Horn Book, starred review "Jeffers knows how to catch the attention of his young audience while challenging their imagination, intellect and vocabulary. This whimsical exploration of letters and language begs to be read over and over again."–BookPage "Handsome, humorous and clad in bright tomato-red, [this] is the sort of book you may want to rush into the arms of imaginative, good-natured children between 4 and 10 years old. [T]his is no traditional abecedarian exercise.The stories are wonderfully varied, sometimes philosophical and often end surprisingly; the drawings are just as quirky and unpredictable."–The Wall Street Journal "[W]itty from A to Z . . . no one would blame you for having a copy even if there are no kids in the house. Think of it as Edward Gorey for the preschool set — and their hip parents."–The Washington Post
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ An Alphabet Of Tales: An English 15th Century Translation Of The Alphabetum Narrationum Of etienne De Besancon. From Additional Ms. 25, 719 Of The British Museum, Volume 1; Early English Text Society (Series).: Original Series; An Alphabet Of Tales: An English 15th Century Translation Of The Alphabetum Narrationum Of etienne De Besancon. From Additional Ms. 25, 719 Of The British Museum; Arnoldus Of Liege; Issue 126 Of Original Series; Early English Text Society Etienne (de Besancon), Arnoldus of Liege Mary Macleod Banks Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., ltd., 1904 Literary Criticism; European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature; Exempla; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Medieval
The accessible comic-strip style of this a-z story book will engage young learners and facilitate independent reading. Children will love hearing about Eddy Elephant’s Excellent Race, Jumping Jim’s Jolly Day and more as they learn the alphabet and build their reading confidence.
