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Title
The
Alphabet from A to Y With Bonus Letter Z!
Author
Steve
Martin, Roz Chast
Age Range
0 - 3
Brief Description
The
acclaimed entertainer and bestselling author Steve Martin and the wildly
clever New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast team up in a weird, wonderful
excursion through the alphabet.
The ABCs have never had it so good. Created by two of today’s wittiest,
most imaginative minds, The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z! is
a sheer delight from A to Z. In twenty-six alliterative couplets, Steve
Martin conjures up much more than mere apples and zebras. Instead we
meet Horace the hare, whose hairdo hides hunchbacks, and Ollie the owl,
who owed Owen an oboe. Roz Chast contributes the perfect visual settings
for Martin’s zany two-liners. Her instantly recognizable drawings are
packed with humorous touches both broad and subtle.
Each rereading—and there will be many—delivers new delights and
discoveries. There, hidden behind Bad Baby Bubbleducks, is a framed
picture of a beatnik holding balloons; and the letter C finds clunky
Clarissa all clingy and clueless adrift in a landscape cluttered with
images ranging from a curiously comfortable clown to Chuck’s Chili
stand. A smart, laugh-inducing introduction to the alphabet for young
children, The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z! will also
enchant adults with its matchless mix of the sophisticated and the
silly.
