A sparkling adventure in rhyme and alliteration, this is an alphabet book done right…
Children rhyme their way through the alphabet in Hanna’s outstanding board book. Hanna carefully plays with word sounds, and her rhyming text is child-centered, making it fun to read aloud as well as appealing to listen to: “R is for Rocket zooming through the sky/ R is for robot,/ with one flashing eye.” The vocabulary is rich and unusual, featuring various living and non-living things, body movements, and emotions among others. Each new letter is represented by two different subjects, and instead of announcing it as a single entry on an empty page, Hanna displays it by emphasizing its appearance in the proceeding rhyme. The backgrounds are kept simple, focusing readers’ attention on the vibrant, bold watercolor-style illustrations and the accompanying text, which beautifully fits in with the former, appearing as an intentional part of the larger design. In the extending field of children’s alphabet titles, this one shines with its creativity and originality. A keeper.
Rhyme Time ABC: An alphabet adventure from A to Z
May Killebrew Hanna
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Pub date March 10, 2023
ISBN 979-8386588281
Price $10.99 (USD) Paperback, $2.99 Kindle edition
