Alphabet Animals

Alphabet Animals
by: Sue MacDonald

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I'm actually going to show you two images for "Alphabet Animals", because words won't do it justice.  MacDonald does such clever drawing with her animal letters and then you slide out a page and peek at the real letter and word to go with it.

We got to a critical point when the "baby" ABC books were deemed, well, too baby by our son but he wanted to start to read the ABC's on his own.  I wanted him to learn his ABC's on his own but as beloved as it is, "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" just isn't intended for a child on the cusp of learning to read.  This book is great.  He sounds out the letter sounds,  pulls the slider, and then "reads" the word.  Now that we've had the book for several months he actually reads the words, but in the early stages matching the sound/picture/letter was his first step to beginning reading.

Recommended Age: Preschool-K