Saturday

Ellsworth's Extraordinary Electric Ears; and other amazing alphabet anecdotes by Valorie Fisher

This was one of the funniest and most novel alphabet books I have seen. Each picture on each page is created by putting together a bunch of alphabetically related pictures. There is also a pithy sentence using multiple words of the one letter. In many cases, the sentence is somewhat quirky and gives some sense to the unusual scene depicted in the photograph.

Some of my favorites are:
"Holly was hugely happy ibn her humble handbag home."
"Mario's mechanical moustache machine made many mistakes."
"Uncle Upton's unusual utensils were unbreakable, unforgettable, and utterly useless."

Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2003.

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