The Usborne Illustrated Alphabet

by Felicity Brooks, Richard Johnson (Illustrator)

A beautiful, luxurious, cloth-bound book in a slipcase, specially created for young children, and a perfect gift to treasure. Each letter of the alphabet is accompanied by an alliterative sentence or two, helping to develop letter and phonetic recognition. It also features the well-known 'A is for apple' structure running through the book, threading each letter together, and helping very young children with their literacy skills.

Genres: Childrens

64 pages, Hardcover

First published December 29, 2015

About the author

Felicity Brooks is an Editorial Director and writer at Usborne Publishing. She studied English and Drama at Exeter University and worked as an actor, teacher and lexicographer (someone who compiles dictionaries) before starting work in children’s publishing in the late 1980s.

She has written and edited hundreds of children’s books, including stories and novelty books for pre-schoolers and books about history, geography, languages, science, maths, nature and the arts.

Her books have won the TES Senior Information Book Award, the Aventis Science Books Prize, the SLA Information Book Award, the Sheffield Baby Books Award and Practical Pre-school Gold and Silver Awards.

Reviews

[Hiba · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my son's favorites. I like that I can make it a long bed time story (by reading everything and letting my son count how many things he can find that start with each letter), a medium story (by just sticking to what is happening at the zoo), or a short one (by just flipping the pages and reading A is for ... B is for ...). I introduced this book when my son was about 2.5 years old and we still read it at 3.5.

[Chinook · Rating 4 out of 5]

As soon as Maddie saw this in the pile of options, she grabbed it and said she needed to read this because she’s learning her alphabet at school. Which was super sweet and the book is pretty good. The illustrations are nice and a few rarer animals show up as well.

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Our family likes any alphabet book with additional descriptive words, especially words that the children don't know already! This alphabet book was unusual because it had a plot - a day at a zoo. Deceptively simple and inviting, this book would make an excellent gift.

[Jeremy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of fun alliteration!

[Karina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love it. Funny, alliterative, and you can look for more things starting with the letter in the illustrations.

[Rhonda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good story, good for reading with different ages. 5 year-old read the letter and animal name page while 7 year-old read the story page.