The Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Book

By Ernst, Lisa Campbell

Publishers Summary:
An alphabet book in which each letter becomes three different objects as the book is turned different directions, as when A becomes a bird's beak, a drippy ice cream cone, and the point of a star.

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ISBN
978-0-68985-685-3
Publisher
Simon


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on August 1, 2004

PreS-Gr 2 Children who are tired of staid concept books will welcome this one-it literally turns the alphabet on its ear. Each page contains a large block letter enclosed in a square that, when viewed from a different direction-left, right, or upside-down (hence the title)-transforms into an entirely different object. For example, when "J" is rotated clockwi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Magazine

Reviewed on July 1, 2004

Using bold graphics, Ernst fashions an alphabet that's an exercise in visual imagination rather than in phonics and initial letters. Each broad, sans-serif letter fills a square of a sophisticatedly dissonant hue, which in turn is broadly bordered in shiny black on the square page. A single sentenc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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