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A variety of humorous animal characters introduce the letters of the alphabet.Tags
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A very short alphabet book, with each letter illustrated by an adjective-noun pair. The animals get a little weird at the end of the book (xylo xylophoning? Uglybird being ugly?), but that's only to be expected.
Fun illustrations, like all of Boynton's books. While not as delightful as some other Boynton books, this is in the top third of alphabet books, by my ranking: each animal is drawn doing some alliterative action and with the appropriate first letter -- "hippo hiding". Very simple, gets the point across, and some humor.
I love Sandra Boynton's animal kingdom. Here she showcases 25 of her favourite animals with (almost) every letter of the alphabet. Notice that there are 26 letters in the alphabet, but there are only 25 animals. I won't say more, but I don't want to spoil the gentle surprise. Sandra's funny animals will entertain parents and children alike. A perfect book to get one's child started on their A,B,C's. Heck, I already know my A,B,C's - and I read it anyway. I'll bet that you and your kids will, too.
Fun illustrations, like all of Boynton's books. While not as delightful as some other Boynton books, this is in the top third of alphabet books, by my ranking: each animal is drawn doing some alliterative action and with the appropriate first letter -- "hippo hiding". Very simple, gets the point across, and some humor.
A nice little alphabet book. Not the traditional A is for apple, there is a verb + animal for each letter. Mx really liked this one.
A to Z and In Between by Sandra Boynton is full of Boynton’s classic animal illustrations and creative imagination, such as “Xylo Xylophoning” and “Uglybirds being Ugly”. Not my favorite Boynton book, but a cute one all the same.
An interesting alphabet of animals, each with an action word. "K Kangaroos Kissing," and so on. Some of the creatures are very obscure, like Uglybird and Xenosaurus, which is the usual trouble with this format of alphabet book. Not bad for toddlers and preschoolers who will like the simple clear and cheerful pictures. But we also like alphabet books with more words and more details in the artwork for each letter. It's good to have a wide variety for preschoolers and kindergarteners.
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Sandra Boynton was born in Orange, New Jersey, and grew up in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Boynton's parents became Quakers when she was two years old. From kindergarten through 12th grade, she and her sisters attended Germantown Friends School, where their father taught English and was Head of the Upper School. She went show more on to Yale, entering in 1970 for her second year of college. She spent the second semester of her junior year studying in Paris through Wesleyan University's program. At Yale, she majored in English. Boynton intended to become a theater director. For graduate studies in drama, she attended the University of California at Berkeley for one year, then transferred to the Yale School of Drama D.F.A. program, but she did not complete the program. With the birth of her first child in 1979, Boynton postponed indefinitely a career in the theater. Boynton began designing greeting cards for Recycled Paper Greetings. Her designs were at the forefront of the Alternative Cards commercial movement that began in the mid-1970s. According to RPG co-founder and president Mike Keiser, over 200 million copies of Boynton's distinctive humorous cards featuring an assortment of unnamed cartoon animal characters, spare layout, and droll messages sold between 1973 and 1995. Since the 1977 release of Hippos Go Berserk!, Boynton has published many children's books, as well as several illustrated humor books for the general market. Her books are most typically for very young children, offered in the laminated paperboard format known as board books. Five of her books have been New York Times best sellers: Chocolate: The Consuming Passion; Frog Trouble and Eleven Other Pretty Serious Songs; Yay, You!; Consider Love; and Philadelphia Chickens, which reached the number one position on the list, and was on the list for nearly a year. Two of her books are Publisher's Weekly bestsellers, Dinosaur Dance!, and Eek! Halloween!. Three of Boynton's books are on the Publishers Weekly All-Time Bestselling Children's Books list. More than 30 million copies of her books have been sold. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1984; 1995 (revised edition) (revised edition)
- Dedication
- For Dapper Devon
- First words
- Aardvark admiring
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Zebra zigzagging
- Original language
- English
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