Dr. Seuss's ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book! (Bright & Early Board Books)

This book has all the playfulness, bright colors, and silliness that one would expect from Dr. Seuss. We tour the alphabet by visiting silly situations such as "Doughnuts and a duck-dog" or "Four fluffy feathers on Fiffer-feffer-feff." Each letter verse begins with the same pattern, such as "Big E, little e, what begins with E?" Among all the silliness, we are learning uppercase and lower case letters, while getting to giggle. This is one of my favorite alphabet books because of its rhythm. It would be hard to read this book without using the sing-song rhythms of each verse. This makes it perfect for the youngest of children to learn the silly enjoyment of reading with a grown-up, while still being enjoyable for preschool and show more Kindergarten children to practice the alphabet. The alliteration within each letter is enjoyable, and I can imagine a speech pathologist using it with some children to work on specific phonological goals in a fun way. (How fun to learn to say the "Z" sound with "Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz"! show less

I just love this book, it is an absolute blast to read aloud. My preschool students always crack up with it, but it also gets them thinking. It shows the letter, puts some hilarious combination of words together, and shows a beautifully illustrated picture to accompany. It provides a fun jumping off point for kids - ask two or three kids to come up with their own words that start with A or J and combine them in a ridiculous way the same way the book does. And, for older kids with more art skills, they can then illustrate their new situation.

This is a good alphabet book with gobs of alliteration and kids with funny names, but I have to admit it's shaken my smug Canadian faith in the superiority of zed over zee. At the end there's a recap of all the letters gone by, and you read them out and turn the page on a cliffhanger, and after bee cee ee gee pee tee vee, of course Emmett yells out "ZEE!!!!" and I had to tell him it was zed and it was kind of a letdown really.

Letters come alive on the page, as Dr. Seuss fills the alphabet with his classic colorful characters, from dreaming David Donald Doo to itchy Ichabod to the quick Queen of Quincy, and of course the Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz. Starting with the most basic building blocks of language, Dr. Seuss makes reading FUN!

From Aunt Annie's Alligator to Rosy's red rhinoceros to a Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz, learning the alphabet is bound to be fun with Dr. Seuss. Each letter is featured with Dr. Seuss's unmistakably nonsensical illustrations and text: "Lion with a lollipop," "Camel on the ceiling," "Uncle Ubb's umbrella and his underwear, too."

There are three reasons why I love this book. The first reason is the language. I love how the author incorporated different words that start with each latter and not only one. This way the children learn more words that start with each letter. My second reason is definitely the illustrations. I love how there are the lower case letters and the bigger case letters. This way the children learn both letters. In addition the pictures are very colorful and very eye catching. This book pushes the readers to learn the alphabet in a fun way and also learn different words that start with each letter. The big idea of this book is to learn the alphabet and each letter but in a fun way. Great book to use for little children.

The text is well done and some of the pictures are quite funny - the baby in the barber shop, for example. Regardless, I find Dr. Seuss's animals to be mostly hideous, classic or no. Not so sure yet how our girls like the book though, maybe they will be of a different opinion.