"A" is for Salad (Picture Puffins)
A is for what? A is for salad, and B is for Viking. Welcome to the wacky world of Mike Lester, where nothing is as it seems. Is A really for salad, or is it for the alligator eating a bowl of mixed greens? And maybe B is for the beaver wearing a Viking helmet. You'll have to look twice to figure...
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A is for what? A is for salad, and B is for Viking. Welcome to the wacky world of Mike Lester, where nothing is as it seems. Is A really for salad, or is it for the alligator eating a bowl of mixed greens? And maybe B is for the beaver wearing a Viking helmet. You'll have to look twice to figure out what each letter really stands for in this irreverent alphabet book. Learning your ABCs has never been so much F-U-N. Mike Lester “turns the alphabet picture book on its hoary head . . . the book is hilarious, right down to its view of X and Y: 'not important. Never use them'." US News and World Report
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780698119260 (0698119266)
Publish date: January 14th 2002
Publisher: Puffin
Pages no: 40
Edition language: English
I'm back on the alphabet book trail! This one is a fun and hysterical way to reinforce phonics with preschoolers and pre-readers. Izzy couldn't stop laughing and asked to read it again and again!
I hadn't seen a good parody in a long time when I grabbed this book a few years ago. It reminded me of John Lennon's ABC, which I found in January 1995 in the old NCSA Mosaic days--one of the first things that made me believe in the internet! A is for Parrot which we can plainly see.B is for glass...
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