My First ABC Book

This very successful alphabet book now reissued with a new cover has instant appeal, and the mix of brilliant colour photography with very clearly typed text ensures each double spread is attractive. A painted wooden alphabet is used, dominating each page in size, but the layout is such that one can move happily from one object to another with ease. A child is photographed playing with an object from each page, next to the wooden letter, and is surrounded with a variety of interesting, familiar things (over 180 in all). Included are lots of animals, toys and foods, some reduced in size, but some greatly magnified. The wasps are huge in comparison with the child, and the worm gleams as it wriggles its way off its page. A good learning feature is the device of a minibeast, drawn on the title page dragging a truck full of letters. At the bottom of each double spread, he leaves behind the correct letter, so as the book proceeds, so the alphabet grows. A book which has deservedly been very popular in our pre-school library as well as in the early years classrooms.