Alphabatics bye Suse MacDonald (1986) is another alphabet book with its own point of view. This alphabet book has drawings emerging, step by step from each letter. The capital letter A flips upside down and turns into an ark with animals. The lowercase B enlarges to transform it’s negative space into a balloon. The letter C flips on its side to become the smiling face of a clown. This book is a visual treat. It earned a Caldecott honor for her ingenuity. I’m wondering if looks like this would interest students learning English as a second language.
In the you tube video by ABC Kinderteach, pronunciations are not consistent for some letters.The A is pronounced like in cat, but the picture is an r-colored sound in ark. The G is pronounced with the hard sound in isolation and then the picture is a giraffe. The X is pronounced with a k-like sound, the picture is a xylophone.
Riana’s Book Channel doesn’t get into this problem because the child reading the book doesn’t make sounds for the isolated letters.
