Synopsis
Best-selling author Audrey Wood collaborates with her son Bruce Wood on Alphabet Adventure, a wonderfully different ABC book that tells the story of an alphabet that sets off to teach a young student his letters. But along the way, the lowercase letter "i" loses her dot, which later reappears. Kids will delight in looking back through the pages to find the dot hidden in every illustration. In colors as bright as sunshine, children will learn the names of each letter of the alphabet, in order and out of order!
Children's Literature
As the lower-case letters of Charley's alphabet march over a bridge to school to help children learn the alphabet, little i falls into the water and loses her dot. They all search but cannot find it. So they all bring something to substitute: b a bug, c a cherry, h a heart, and so forth. But the dot won't be left behind; it comes out of hiding so they can get to school on time to make their first word. The letters look like the kind that spell words out on the refrigerator. They have their adventures on double pages that appear almost surreal as computer-generated houses, trees and all have a sameness, as if frozen in space. An amusing if unemotional practice in letter recognition. 2001, Blue Sky Press/Scholastic, $15.95. Ages 3 to 6. Reviewer: Ken Marantz and Sylvia Marantz