Review by Booklist Review
Ages 4-6. This alphabet book offers an ingenious graphic display: it takes a letter and forms it into part of the picture that illustrates the letter's sound. For example, m becomes the mustache on a mysterious-looking face. The graphics are colorful and energetic, making optimum use of pure, clear color, unlined shapes, and dynamic composition. Upper- and lowercase letters are displayed to the upper left, the corresponding word to the lower right. Across the intervening space are the letter's permutations and the striking illustrations they result in. Clever and inviting, this is one of the most visually refreshing alphabet books seen in quite some time. DMW. Alphabet [CIP] 85-31429
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
An ``A'' is inverted and its sides plump up. Suddenly, it's an ``Ark,'' floating on the high seas. The ``C'' falls over backwards and becomes the broad grin of a ``Clown.'' When the lowercase ``h'' fills in, the first downstroke becomes a chimney and the hump peaks like the roof of a ``house.'' MacDonald uses visual acrobatics to tease young ABC learners into looking at letters in an unusual way. Her graphics are set boldly against a pristine while background. The concept could take all the hard work out of learning the alphabet; some readers may be inspired to make their own attempts to convert letters into art. (All ages (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Review by School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 3 An alphabet book that is imaginative, original, and bound to strike a creative note in children. Boldly colored upper- and lower-case letters appear at the top left of every page. Below them, each boxed animated letter jumps, dances, or gently sways to become a part of an object or a scene on the facing page, with one-word labels. MacDonald's A tilts, flops over, and literally becomes an ark as it turns itself around. An N turns over, glides up a tree trunk, and becomes a nest for three young birds. Crisp, fresh, and totally effective, it's a unique way of looking at the alphabet. This is a book to encourage creative thinking and for sheer enjoyment of MacDonald's precise graphics, rather than for object identification among the very young. A visual delight. Trev Jones, ``School Library Journal'' (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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