{"id":10185,"date":"2015-11-03T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10185"},"modified":"2016-09-07T11:20:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:20:12","slug":"reading-the-best-alphabet-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10185","title":{"rendered":"Reading: The Best Alphabet Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The two younger boys are at different stages of letter recognition (and early reading), so we’ve been exposing them to a lot of letters at home. I thought it might be fun to share our favorite alphabet books, which go beyond the old “a is for apple,” with lovely illustrations, clever plays on words, and great alliteration.
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Bruno Munari’s ABC<\/a><\/em>\"DSC_0007\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Bruno Munari’s artwork has been exhibited in museums in Tokyo, Paris, Munich, Holland, Brazil, and the United States. He received many awards for his illustrations before passing away in 1998. Here, he presents beautiful color alongside “a fly… a flower… a feather… and a fish… [and] more flies.”
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A vertical violet violin<\/em><\/p>\n

The beauty of this one is in its simplicity.
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Take Away the A<\/a>,\u00a0by Michael Escoffier and Kris Di Giacomo<\/em><\/p>\n

I checked out this book with Oliver in mind. He is a rather bashful reader, refusing any sort of attention around a parent listening to him read aloud (and possibly make mistakes, I suspect). But this book, in its creativity, has opened him up just the slightest bit. The premise is to subtract a single letter from a word to watch it transform (with accompanying pictures) into an entirely different word. Here: “Without the W, the WITCH has an ITCH.”
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Without the L, PLANTS wear PANTS.<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s clever and funny enough to get Oliver to forget about impressing anyone. I’ve caught him reading this on the couch out loud (whispering) more than once.
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Once Upon an Alphabet: Short Stories for all the Letters<\/a>,\u00a0by Oliver Jeffers<\/em><\/p>\n

This one is my personal favorite, as I can always count on a laugh-out-loud moment with at least one of the boys every time we read it. In true Jeffers form, each story is quirky, sometimes dark, sometimes telling a lesson. All clever, and accompanied by his illustrations, just an entirely great book.
\n\"DSC_0014\"<\/a>Robots don’t like rain clouds | So they steal them from the sky | From everywhere and anywhere | That’s why it’s been so dry | I’m sure you have been wondering | What’s with all this dust?<\/em>
\n\"DSC_0015\"<\/a>And last but not least…
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Superhero ABC<\/a>, by Bob McLeod<\/em><\/p>\n

This one is Milo and Oliver’s favorite, as it is jam packed with funny alliteration. On each page (or two), a made-up superhero represents each letter of the alphabet.\u00a0\"DSC_0022\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Multiplying Mike becomes Many More Men in Moments | He wears a Mask! | He has Mighty Muscles! | His Mom Makes them all Mind their Manners!\u00a0<\/em>\"DSC_0023\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ll let you guess who the “Yellow Yeller” is… ha ha!<\/p>\n

I’m sure there are plenty other great alphabet books out there… feel free to add yours in the comments section! Happy Reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The two younger boys are at different stages of letter recognition (and early reading), so we’ve been exposing them to a lot of letters at home. I thought it might be fun to share our favorite alphabet books, which go beyond the old “a is for apple,” with lovely illustrations, clever plays on words, and … Continue reading “Reading: The Best Alphabet Books”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[48,132,73],"class_list":["post-10185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-motherhood","tag-reading","tag-school-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10185"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10203,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185\/revisions\/10203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}