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Alphabet
An Amazing ABC Safari for Preschoolers!
In Matthew Van Fleet's incredible new multiconcept book, over 100 creatures and plants from A to Z hilariously demonstrate action words, synonyms, opposites, and more. Young explorers are challenged to spot four plants or animals that begin with each letter of the alphabet. Twenty-three textures plus foils, flaps, pull tabs, and even...more
In Matthew Van Fleet's incredible new multiconcept book, over 100 creatures and plants from A to Z hilariously demonstrate action words, synonyms, opposites, and more. Young explorers are challenged to spot four plants or animals that begin with each letter of the alphabet. Twenty-three textures plus foils, flaps, pull tabs, and even...more
Novelty Book, 20 pages
Published
April 8th 2008
by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
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I love Matthew Van Fleet's sturdy pop up books, but this one is not my favorite. The animals he uses are a little obscure and cause some confusion for kids in his age audience. For example he uses an animal whose name starts with a D and is widely unknown, but it looks like a gorilla. Mackenzie said "D is for gorilla" when she looked at it. She's not far enough along in her alphabet knowledge to realize that it's not quite right. Of course it made for some interesting conversation about the diff...more
Genre: Alphabet Book
Grade: Preschool-1st
This book is an alphabet book of animals. Each letter has an animal that starts with that letter accompanying it. Not only does it have the name of the animal, but there is a short line describing the texture of part of the animal. For example for the letter C it says, "Scratchy pink Cougar tongues." On this page the tongue of the cougar feels like sandpaper. Each animal has a texture on it that chidren can feel. Some of the pages have moving parts or fol...more
Grade: Preschool-1st
This book is an alphabet book of animals. Each letter has an animal that starts with that letter accompanying it. Not only does it have the name of the animal, but there is a short line describing the texture of part of the animal. For example for the letter C it says, "Scratchy pink Cougar tongues." On this page the tongue of the cougar feels like sandpaper. Each animal has a texture on it that chidren can feel. Some of the pages have moving parts or fol...more
We've had this from birth (written at 22 months). Tactile for the young, some atypical animal choices for the older kids to expand their animal vocabulary beyond the typical. Take care with the legs on the kangaroos, I've had to glue them and my daughter is actually very careful with her books. A fun one when she's not really interested in a serious read but wants to flip through a book.
I think that I would give one and a half stars to this imaginative alphabet book.
Matthew Van Fleet has brought some interesting twists to this old concept, and I appreciate the creativity. What I really liked best was the sticky octopus.
Matthew Van Fleet has brought some interesting twists to this old concept, and I appreciate the creativity. What I really liked best was the sticky octopus.
Kendall received this book from a good friend for Christmas, and we have all loved it. It has cute pictures and so many textures to feel for every letter of the alphabet. We are exciited to add this book to our collection.
Jan 21, 2013
Robin
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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Okay, so how much do I love this book which has texture and movement on many pages plus it's got a whole alphabet poster with pop-ups! Very fun. I guess I will share it with the grandchild...if they behave.
Avery loves this book. With so many textures to play with, flaps to lift and sparkles to discover he is happy to open it up himself and play for ages. He's not really interested in me reading it to him!
I can't recommend this book highly enough. The pictures are gorgeous and the touching parts fantastic. buy one for you and all your grandchildren. and buy tails too.
I love this one even if it not quite as durable as Tails. It is in Van Fleets lovable style and a great introduction to the alphabet for kids. Ages Birth+
Not as fun or rhythmical as his Tails but still a fun, sturdy book with all sorts of interactive pages for the little ones.
A clever animal ABC book with LOTS of fun textures for babies/toddlers/preschoolers. The accompanying pop-up alphabet poster is fantastic.
Both this book and Tails are full of fun illustrations, flaps, pull tabs and touch and feel. My kids love them.
We really like this one! Moving parts, flaps, and lots of textures. Huge pop up animal poster adds to the fun!
Pop-ups, action, smelly, and feeling all included in the alphabet animal collection.
Neat book with over 100 creatures and plants from A to Z . Young explorers are challenged to spot four plants or animals that begin with each letter of the alphabet. 23 textures plus foils, flaps, pull tabs add to the interactive surprises on each page. Very cute details. I enjoyed this book and know that little children would too. It would be a lot of fun to read one-on-one with a child--many things to look for and surprises on each page.
This book is very cute but not a borrow-from-the-library book because by the time we got it from the library (and it's relatively new) some of the flaps were already torn off. Heathens. When I was a Children's Librarian this is the type of book I would have either kept exclusively in my story time collection or in the "library use only" collection.
My daugher absolutely adores this book and I think it is very cleverly done. It has a lot of touch and feel that keeps toddlers focused on the book. We're big fans of Tails by the same author. A lot of fun for Toddlers and a great way to teach them the Alphabet and animals at the same time. Plus it comes with a really cool poster with flaps on it!
If I were a toddler, this is the book I'd want to play with. Things move, things are sticky, and the stinkbug stinks.
Even better than his Tails, which was awesome.
Even better than his Tails, which was awesome.
lots of tactile things here -- stuff to touch, moving parts, a fold out flap. It's like a book wonderland!
This is simply marvelous. Great animal alphabet book, great illustrations, great "touch and feel" effects.
another great one by Matthew Van Fleet... a gotta have for toddlers ...our stink bug does not stink ...
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Touch and feel book. Toddler/preschooler
The stink bug actually smells!!
Stanley loves this book
Ages 2 to 6
May 07, 2013
Susana Diaz
marked it as to-read
Apr 19, 2013
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