Sunday, August 30, 2009

A is for Salad


A is for Salad by Mike Lester
All ages

I think this book would be confusing for little kids, especially ones who are just getting comfortable with the alphabet. This book goes through the alphabet from A to Z saying phrases like “A is for salad,” and “B is for Viking.” Clearly, to any good reader they know that these are not the case. The entire book says these confusing and untrue sayings. The kick to this book is that there is a picture which each letter that signifies the correct object starting with that letter. So, when it says “A is for salad” there is an alligator eating a salad and then for “B is for Viking” there is a picture of a beaver dressed up as a Viking. This book looks like it should be designed for very beginning readers because of the amount of words on each page, however I strongly believe they would be very confused by sentences.

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