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Children's Booklist - A Sampling of Alphabet Books


Title: Who ordered the jumbo shrimp? : and other oxymorons
Author: Jon Agee
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Title: K is for kissing a cool kangaroo
Author: Giles Andreae
Summary: Illustrations and a simple rhyme introduce all the letters of the alphabet, and the word list that follows challenges the reader to go back and find more examples of words that begin with each letter.


Title: Alphaboat
Author: Michael Chesworth
Summary: Rhyming text full of puns tells the story of the letters of the alphabet sailing off to look for a buried treasure.


Title: Dog's ABC : a silly story about the alphabet
Author: Emma Dodd
Summary: Dog is back and into as much trouble as ever. The clumsy canine finds an alphabet's worth of adventure as he patrols his neighborhood...


Title: Eating the alphabet : fruits and vegetables from A to Z
Author: Lois Ehlert
Summary: An alphabetical tour of the world of fruits and vegetables, from apricot and artichoke to yam and zucchini.


Title: What do animals do on the weekend? : adventures from A to Z
Author: Lauren Faulkenberry
Summary: Recounts the leisure time activities of a variety of creatures, from ants admiring paintings in an art gallery to zebras looking at New Zealand from their zeppelin.


Title: Ellsworth's extraordinary electric ears and other amazing alphabet anecdotes
Author: Valorie Fisher
Summary: Photographs depict twenty-six scenes, one for each letter of the alphabet.


Title: Alphabet under construction
Author: Denise Fleming
Summary: A mouse works his way through the alphabet as he folds the F, measures the M, and rolls the R.


Title: ABC pop
Author: Rachel Isadora
Summary: Each letter of the alphabet is represented by illustrations in a pop art style.


Title: Alphabet city
Author: Stephen T. Johnson
Summary: Paintings of objects in an urban setting present the letters of the alphabet.


Title: What Pete ate from A-Z
Author: Maira Kalman
Summary: In this alphabet book, a child relates some of the unusual things eaten by Pete the dog, including an accordion, a lucky quarter, and Uncle Norman's underpants.


Title: ABC T-Rex
Author: Bernard Most
Summary: A young T-Rex loves his ABCs so much that he eats them up, experiencing on each letter a word that begins with that letter.


Title: A B C D, an alphabet book of cats and dogs
Author: Sheila Moxley
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