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March 1, 2005/in Picture Book 5-8 Infant/Junior /by Angie Hill
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BfK 151 March 2005
Reviewer: Jill Bennett
ISBN: 1840593938
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Genre: Picture Book
Age Range: 5-8 Infant/Junior
Length: 40pp
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Alphabet Poem

Author: Michael RosenIllustrator: Hervé Tullet

This book is full of amusing, alliterative alphabetically arranged antics, poetically penned by Rosen who takes readers on a flight of fancy to a place where, for example, there are ‘computers cooking cakes, ice cream is itchy’ and ‘noses need nets’. Tullet translates Rosen’s nonsensical notions into a sequence of surreal spreads that he executes (predominantly) with pen and paint perambulations.

Anything but a conventional alphabet book; rather, a book to encourage divergent thinking and experimentation in the use of language and form. Anyone who wants to foster a culture of creativity should get hold of a copy of this book and share it with as wide an audience as possible.

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