Richard Scarry's Chipmunk's ABC
Written by Roberta Miller
Illustrated by Richard Scarry
Format: eBook, 24 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $3.99
Chipmunk lives under the apple tree, in a burrow. He likes to eat cake and pick daffodils.This cheerful book features appealing animal characters, bright artwork in Scarry's early painterly style, and simple sentences that teach the alphabet.
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The Sleepy Little Alphabet
A Bedtime Story from Alphabet Town
Written by Judy Sierra
Illustrated by Melissa Sweet
Format: eBook, 40 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2012
Price: $10.99
A fun read-aloud for little ones who are learning their ABCs.
It's sleepy time in Alphabet Town. But the twenty-six little letters of the alphabet all have something they need—or want—to do before big-letter moms and dads tuck them in. Not since the classic
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom has there been such...
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AlphaOops!
The Day Z Went First
Written by Alethea Kontis
Illustrated by Bob Kolar
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $6.99
It's backwards! It's inside out! It's every letter for itself! This laugh-out-loud romp is not your average alphabet book!Z is tired of always having to be last when the alphabet family lines up. He is demanding fair and equal treatment! The letters (more or less) agree to go backwards, but it's...
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Augie to Zebra
An Alphabet Book!
Written by Caspar Babypants
Illustrated by Kate Endle
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $16.99
"Eliza educates elephants. Manny mimics monkeys. Sisika sings with sparrows."
Each letter of the alphabet gets its own alliterative sentence involving a name, an activity, and an animal. This fresh approach to the ABCs is coupled with Kate Endle's charming and colorful collage art. Kate Endle is a collector of beautiful...
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A You're Adorable
Written by Martha Alexander
Illustrated by Martha Alexander
Format: Board, 20 pages
On Sale: December 13, 2011
Price: $6.99
A You're adorable
B You're so beautiful
C You're a cutie full of charm
D— You'll be delighted by this delicious trip through the alphabet! Sing along as a lively company of children and assorted pets scamper across the bright pages and through the letters from A to Z. With warm and charming illustrations...
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Elmo's Alphabet Soup (Sesame Steet)
Written by Naomi Kleinberg
Illustrated by Tom Brannon
Format: Board, 12 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $6.99
What should Elmo and Cookie Monster put into their alphabet vegetable soup? As the two chefs work their way from A to Z, they consider an ingredient for every letter, from the obvious to the simply silly. Should they use apples? Not for vegetable soup! Broccoli and carrots? Yes! What about...
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Dr. Seuss's Second Beginner Book Collection
Written by Dr. Seuss
Illustrated by Random House
Format: Boxed Set, 288 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $44.95
Want to give a gift that will make a lasting impression? This boxed set of of five beloved Beginner Books by Dr. Seuss—
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, Dr. Seuss's ABC, Oh Say Can You Say?, Oh the Thinks You Can Think!, and
I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!—is...
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An Annoying ABC
Written by Barbara Bottner
Illustrated by Michael Emberley
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $17.99
Imagine a preschool classroom with 25 cranky kids and one beleaguered teacher.
It only takes one small annoying act from Adelaide to set off a chain reaction of bad behavior. Dexter is drooling, Flora is fuming, Jasper is jeering, Kirby is kicking . . . and before you know it, Stella...
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An Annoying ABC
Written by Barbara Bottner
Illustrated by Michael Emberley
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 32 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $20.99
Imagine a preschool classroom with 25 cranky kids and one beleaguered teacher.
It only takes one small annoying act from Adelaide to set off a chain reaction of bad behavior. Dexter is drooling, Flora is fuming, Jasper is jeering, Kirby is kicking . . . and before you know it, Stella...
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AlphaOops: H Is for Halloween
Midi Edition
Written by Alethea Kontis
Illustrated by Bob Kolar
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $7.99
H gets top billing — but a stubborn B has something scary to say — as the inside-out alphabet gives a howl-arious Halloween performance.Ack! It’s time for the show, and A isn’t ready. But then again, Halloween can only start with one letter, no matter how the A-B-Cs normally go! The...
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The Alphabet Book
Written by P.D. Eastman
Format: eBook, 32 pages
On Sale: May 24, 2011
Price: $3.99
P.D. Eastman, the author of
Go, Dog, Go! and
Are You My Mother? takes you on a silly romp through the alphabet.
From American Ants to a Zebra with a Zither, there are laughs in store: an elephant on eggs! A walrus in a wig!
And there's a handy alphabet down the side of...
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Kindergarten Countdown
Written by Anna Jane Hays
Illustrated by Linda Davick
Format: eBook, 24 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2011
Price: $8.99
"MY SCHOOL STARTS in one week so—
I have SEVEN DAYS to go. Mom says be patient, do not worry. But I can't wait! I'm in a hurry!"In this delightful book a little girl counts off the days by naming what she'll do in kindergarten. "I'll be ready, I'll be smart. I...
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ABC, Baby Me!
Written by Susan B. Katz
Illustrated by Alicia Padron
Format: Board, 28 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Price: $7.99
ABC, Baby Me! offers a new twist on a classic board book theme, using the alphabet to take babies through their busy day, from
Adore me, Bathe me, Cuddle me, too . . . all the way to
ZSusan B. Katz's clever rhyming text and Alicia Padrón's adorable multicultural babies and...
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Absolutely Beastly Children
Written by Dan Krall
Illustrated by Dan Krall
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Price: $14.99
In this book you’ll find 26 children who are almost certainly nothing like you. You always eat your peas and say please. You, unlike Oscar, would never tell lies. And in your wildest dreams you wouldn’t play with your food the way Nancy does. But even the sweetest child can be...
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The Most Amazing Hide-and-Seek Alphabet Book
Written by Robert Crowther
Illustrated by Robert Crowther
Format: Trade Paperback, 12 pages
On Sale: July 26, 2010
Price: $12.99
In these two classics from Robert Crowther, readers can lift the flaps and pull the tabs to find an alphabet’s worth of animals—and any number of surprises.
Frogs that leap, hens that peck, snakes that uncoil — open this book and discover how much more there is to the alphabet than meets...
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AlphaOops: H Is for Halloween
Written by Alethea Kontis
Illustrated by Bob Kolar
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $15.99
H gets top billing — but a stubborn B has something scary to say — as the inside-out alphabet gives a howl-arious Halloween performance.Ack! It’s time for the show, and A isn’t ready. But then again, Halloween can only start with one letter, no matter how the A-B-Cs normally go! The...
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Colors, Numbers, Letters
Written by Leo Lionni
Format: Board, 40 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $10.99
Leo Lionni's playful mice present the three most basic early-learning concepts in one irresistible board book. Cheerful collage mice prance across the pages as they identify the colors of the rainbow. They make math fun by counting each other. And they're up to their best tricks as they cavort, juggle and...
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A Pioneer Alphabet
Written by Mary Alice Downie
Illustrated by Mary Jane Gerber
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $7.95
A is for Abigail and Anna, Zebediah’s two sisters. He is making them an alphabet book.
From B, which stands for bandalore, a forerunner of the yoyo, H for the hornbook that taught children to spell, and on through the pigeons that blackened the sky, to the uniform that Papa wore when...
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There's No Such Thing as a Dragon
Illustrated by Jack Kent
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $6.99
A classic dragon tale returns in paperback!
When Billy Bixbee finds a tiny dragon in his bedroom, his mom tells him, “There’s no such thing as a dragon!” This only makes the dragon get bigger. He grows, and grows, and grows, until he’s bigger than Billy’s house—and that’s just the beginning!
Charming text...
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Elmo's ABC Book Big Book
A Sesame Street Big Book
Written by Sarah Albee
Illustrated by Tom Brannon
Format: Trade Paperback, 24 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $19.99
Two more Big Books on SESAME STREET®!What is Elmo’s favorite letter? Is it A for delicious and crunchy apples, I for imagination . . .or maybe E for Elmo? Elmo can’t make up his mind, so it’s up to the readers of this upbeat alphabet book to decide.
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Halloween ABC
Written by Sarah Albee
Illustrated by Julia Woolf
Format: Hardcover, 24 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $3.99
ABC fun, dressed up as a Halloween book!Little ones will enjoy this colorful book about a bunch of trick-ortreaters from A to Z (an
angel, a
ballerina, a
cowboy, and so on) and their fun, “spooky” adventures around the neighborhood!
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The Sleepy Little Alphabet
A Bedtime Story from Alphabet Town
Written by Judy Sierra
Illustrated by Melissa Sweet
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $16.99
A fun read-aloud for little ones who are learning their ABCs.
It's sleepy time in Alphabet Town. But the twenty-six little letters of the alphabet all have something they need—or want—to do before big-letter moms and dads tuck them in. Not since the classic
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom has there been such...
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The Sleepy Little Alphabet
A Bedtime Story from Alphabet Town
Written by Judy Sierra
Illustrated by Melissa Sweet
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 40 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $19.99
A fun read-aloud for little ones who are learning their ABCs.
It's sleepy time in Alphabet Town. But the twenty-six little letters of the alphabet all have something they need—or want—to do before big-letter moms and dads tuck them in. Not since the classic
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom has there been such...
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Seattle ABC: A Larry Gets Lost Book
Written by John Skewes and Robert Schwartz
Illustrated by John Skewes
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $16.99
How many letters do you see around you? All 26 and then some is the answer in this gorgeous picture book that teaches little ones the alphabet during a journey through Seattle. The tour guides are everyone's favorite excitable pooch, Larry, and his owner, Pete. This new entry in the popular...
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My Little Sister Hugged an Ape
Written by Bill Grossman
Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
Format: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $6.99
WILD ANIMALS DON’T SCARE Little Sister. And to show how much she likes them, she’s going to hug them all, from Ape to Zebra, whether they like it or not! A newt, an octopus, a porcupine . . . it’s a slimy, slippery, prickly situation. What will Little Sister hug next?...
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