Animal Alphabet

by Bert Kitchen

Animal Alphabet

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 31, 1991

About the author

Bert Kitchen has illustrated more than seventeen books for children. He has worked as an animator, textile designer, fine artist, and commercial artist. He lives and works in London.

Reviews

[Cheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty, sometimes creative (I especially like X, but find Y uninteresting, fwiw). But mainly just another oversize ABC for collectors. There really are so many better choices for learners....

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Whew! An alphabet book that my niece and nephew actually liked! The illustrations in this one were beautiful, but even better, many letters were illustrated with unexpected animals (e.g., magpie for "M," jerboa for "J," umbrella bird for "U"). My niece was aware of many of these animals, but my nephew wasn't, so this book was educational for him on an abecedarian and a zoological level! The kids had lots of fun naming the letters and animals presented in this work.

[Andrea Mack · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is another alphabet book that I used in one of my observing classes. The students have a lot of animal figurines that they play with, so they would gather them to use with their alphabet. I would use it in early elementary to help with learning the alphabet and associating objects with the alphabet.
I gave it five stars because it is my favorite alphabet book. The illustrations are very uniform and clean. They clearly resemble the real animals, so there would be no confusion there.

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful and realistic art

[Rufus · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved it when I was little and my son loves it now he's little. Great book with imaginative illustrations.

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Each page had one capital letter in black with an animal that starts with that letter. I admit, I thought the chameleon was an iguana, which didn’t make any sense, but there is a legend on the last page that lists the letters and alphabets. The illustrations are clear and will play to children interested in animals. There also is a little bit of whimsy with the elephant pushing the E and the rhinoceros spearing the R with its horn. For X, the top of the X forms a fishbowl filled with x-ray fish!

[Roxy]

A picture book that includes 26 different animals yet never reveals the letter of what the animal starts with. On the final page it says what each animal is allowing this book to be a perfect guessing game for young readers. It's a great way to connect the letter of the alphabet with a common animal image.

[Shanshad Whelan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the illustrations in this book, which are gorgeous. But some of the choices for the alphabetical animals are just a bit odd and obscure. And why is M the only letter with two animals? Still, my son enjoys it, and he's learning the unusual creatures in it.

[Caroline · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think that this alphabet book had some great pictures and is a good beginner book for young children. I found some of the pictures to be a little confusing and difficult to determine the animal that matched the letter.

[Nancy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely wordless alphabet book. It's a great tool for children to guess the animal as well as learning the letters their names start with. Kudos to the author for not always making the obvious choice of animal (and for providing a glossary in the back!)

[Nancy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This animal alphabet is the opposite of the previous one, as it doesn't have words. Instead, each animal is shown interacting with a large example of his particular letter--equally enjoyable.

[Mickey Reville · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book, without words, in which animals turn into letters. Great book to teach alphabet to younger readers. Also a great book to introduce metamorphosis.

[Marilyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent drawings!

[Michael Fitzgerald · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant!