Alphabet Rescue

Fans of Audrey and Bruce Wood’s Alphabet Adventure and Alphabet Mystery will be delighted to know about this new concept book. The creators could not have picked a more appealing storyline than to have the ‘little letters’ build their own fire truck. When the ‘big’ fire truck breaks down, it is up to the ‘little letters’ to come to the rescue and put out a fire in the letter-making factory. Beautiful illustrations have so much to offer those learning the alphabet.

This is a very clever book by the same author as The Napping House. This book is about the lowercase letters and how one falls into the water. The other letters spend the entire book searching for him. It is delightful! I read this to get my students to take a good look at the lowercasse letters which they are not that familiar with.

Alphabet Rescue is the perfect book when it comes to learning the alphabet through pictures and have fun story behind it. The author, Audrey Wood, writes about Charley's alphabet that goes on a vacation while he visits his grandmother. Alphabet Rescue is about the lowercase letters and how one falls into the water. The illustrations that this book provides are bright, vivid and teaches children that they can do whatever they put there mind to by trying their best. Over all I rate is book a five star to read to children and it will keep there attention along with teaching a valuable lesson.

Summary:
HELP! THERE'S A FIRE!
*Firetruck sirens*
After a great school year of helping Charley learn his letters, the little letters go on another fun adventure.
(YAY!)
When Charley's letters arrive at Alphabet city, they meet the big (capital) letters. The Charley's little letters asked the capital letters about their firetruck and even play with the fire hose. The fire hose whipped around and made a huge mess. "Fire hoses are for big letters only! Go play somewheres else" Fire Chief 'F' exclaimed! The Charley's letters did. Charley's letters discovered a broken fire truck. In no time, with teamwork, the letters fixed up the broken firetruck.
They rode around in the fire engine washing down a dirty car with the fire hose and even helping 3 show more letter that got stuck in a tree. Those three letters were 'c', 'a', and 't'.
ANGRY SMOKE FILLED THE SKY! FIRE! FIRE! On the way to the fire, Charley's little letters saw the capital letters' firetruck flipped upside down with a flat tire. The capital letters climbed in the little letters' firetruck and rushed to the fire. They put out the fire and saved all of the little e's that were trapped inside of the building.
Charley's little letters were always welcomed at the firehouse anytime!

Illustrations:
The illustrator, Bruce Wood, drew the art for all 3 of the alphabet series (as listed below). Each book has something hidden inside the art. You can do a lesson, for children, on just the art of all 3 of these books. For this book, Alphabet Rescue, he included silly things for children to catch.
If you look closely you can catch 'i' is eating ice cream, 'm' is looking at a mirror, 'h' is using the hammer to fix the firetruck, and 'r' is playing with some rope. The fire chief was a capital 'F'. In the tree, the letters 'c', 'a', and 't' were stuck. This is a play off of "a cat stuck in a tree", which brings laughter to the readers when their light-bulb turns on when they make this association.

Learning:
Great book for children who are mastering the alphabet along with capital vs. lower case. The art can teach children that 'f' is for fire chief, 'r' is for rope, and 'i' is for ice cream. Bruce Wood did a fantastic job with the art that which teaches children their letters and what they stand for in a creative way (in all of his books).

Yes, this book has a series. Check out what happens when Charlie's letters go on more adventures.
#1: Alphabet Adventure (2001)
#2: Alphabet Mystery (2003)
#3: Alphabet Rescue (2006) show less

It's an alphabet book that doesn't suck and that has the side benefit of featuring a firetruck. Brilliant!

A fun story about lowercase letters saving the day! Great for lowercase ID.

Not so much a 'teach' or 'expose' the alphabet as much as a story with alphabet letters as characters. Great for pre-k, Kindergarten and preschool storytime.