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Alphabet Riddles
Presents riddles in rhyme for each letter of the alphabet
32 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1998
About the author
Susan Joyce
15 books145 followersBorn in Los Angeles California, Susan Joyce spent most of her childhood in Tucson, Arizona and returned to LA as a young working woman. Inspired as a child by postcards from her globe-trotting great aunt, Susan left the United States at age 20 to see the world.
She planned on being gone for a year, but ended up living her 20s and 30s in Europe and the Middle East. As a Jill of all trades, she worked as a secretary, freelance writer, taught computer classes, wrote songs, and became an accomplished artist while writing her first children's book, "Peel, the Extraordinary Elephant." An award winning author and editor of children's books. Susan has just completed a memoir of a twelve year 'roller-coaster' period of her life, titled "The Lullaby Illusion--A Journey of Awakening."
She planned on being gone for a year, but ended up living her 20s and 30s in Europe and the Middle East. As a Jill of all trades, she worked as a secretary, freelance writer, taught computer classes, wrote songs, and became an accomplished artist while writing her first children's book, "Peel, the Extraordinary Elephant." An award winning author and editor of children's books. Susan has just completed a memoir of a twelve year 'roller-coaster' period of her life, titled "The Lullaby Illusion--A Journey of Awakening."
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May 28, 2023
The family read this one together, and we had fun listening to our kids try to figure out the riddles. Easy read and fun.
July 18, 2014
A wonderful book.
This is a beautifully presented hardback book with a lovely colourful and eye-catching cover. The A and Z on the front are instantly recognisable to children starting to learn to read. My grandson is four and a half, so, this is really a book that we read together at the moment, but, even now, he loves to read some of the words that he can read if I miss some out and let him fill them in. I can see this book appealing for quite a few years for this reason, as, at the moment it is mainly a book I read to him but, in a while, he will be able to read more and more himself and later still, all of it. Some books for your children are just very basic and mainly serve the purpose to get your child on to the next level, yet this is a substantial and lasting book to enjoy. There is a riddle for every letter of the alphabet contained in this book, so that's quite a lot. They are well thought out and they do rhyme and are all words that children will know and relate to, or, if any of the words are new to them, they will have fun finding out about them. To complement the book there are many vibrant and colourful illustrations by Susan's husband, Doug DuBosque, and my grandson loves these; they are very cleverly done-sort of semi-hidden. For example-one riddle, the answer is 'Pet' and if you just look at the words of the riddle and your child is focusing on the text, you kind of miss that there is a picture there-then when you arrive at the answer-a pet-you suddenly see a picture of a dog's nose poking out from the centre of the book-it was there all the time and we missed it! My grandson said he loved all the bright colours on the pages and the pictures-especially all the different shades of blue. An absolute winner of a book for reading and enjoying together and moving on to reading alone-and reading to your children's children etc.
This is a beautifully presented hardback book with a lovely colourful and eye-catching cover. The A and Z on the front are instantly recognisable to children starting to learn to read. My grandson is four and a half, so, this is really a book that we read together at the moment, but, even now, he loves to read some of the words that he can read if I miss some out and let him fill them in. I can see this book appealing for quite a few years for this reason, as, at the moment it is mainly a book I read to him but, in a while, he will be able to read more and more himself and later still, all of it. Some books for your children are just very basic and mainly serve the purpose to get your child on to the next level, yet this is a substantial and lasting book to enjoy. There is a riddle for every letter of the alphabet contained in this book, so that's quite a lot. They are well thought out and they do rhyme and are all words that children will know and relate to, or, if any of the words are new to them, they will have fun finding out about them. To complement the book there are many vibrant and colourful illustrations by Susan's husband, Doug DuBosque, and my grandson loves these; they are very cleverly done-sort of semi-hidden. For example-one riddle, the answer is 'Pet' and if you just look at the words of the riddle and your child is focusing on the text, you kind of miss that there is a picture there-then when you arrive at the answer-a pet-you suddenly see a picture of a dog's nose poking out from the centre of the book-it was there all the time and we missed it! My grandson said he loved all the bright colours on the pages and the pictures-especially all the different shades of blue. An absolute winner of a book for reading and enjoying together and moving on to reading alone-and reading to your children's children etc.
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