The Absolutely Awful Alphabet - Softcover

Gerstein, Mordicai

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0152163433 ISBN 13: 9780152163433

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001

Synopsis

The Absolutely Awful Alphabet These letters of the alphabet are arrogant, cantankerous, and ferocious, and they have drippy noses, scratchy hair, and green teeth. Zany art gives each letter a spectacular new personality, and the humorous, alliterative text can stretch young readers' vocabularies. Full-color illustrations. Full description

About this title

Product Description:

A zany and alliterative alphabet book presents twenty-six mean and monstrous letters, from A (an awfully arrogant amphibian) to Z (a zig-zagging zoological zany). Reprint.

Review:

Suppose each letter in the alphabet were some ghoulish creep. ("A is an awfully arrogant Amphibian...") And suppose each ensuing letter, nastier than the last, was about to attack, or get attacked by, one of its neighbours. ("P, a particularly putrid Predator ... plans to pulverize Q, a quivering, quizzical Quacker ..."). You'd have the delightfully spooky and suspenseful version of the alphabet that is Mordicai Gerstein's The Absolutely Awful Alphabet. Alphabet lessons have never been so slimy, ugly, nasty, or just plain weird and Gerstein's illustrations strike just the right tone. With their blue tongues, frizzy black nose hairs, pointy fangs and slit eyes, these letters are wonderfully terrible to behold. The best of the worst? V, a "voracious vegetable vampire who is viciously vile." Warning: You'll never look at an ear of corn the same way again. (Ages 5 and older) --Jean Lenihan, Amazon.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0152163433
• ISBN 13: 9780152163433
• Binding: Paperback