**PAL Award Winner**

About this Book

A total of 26 amusing rhymes and illustrations to playfully and easily facilitate full alphabet knowledge (name, sound,  shape, and print formation of each capital letter) — noted to be the best predictor of a child’s future reading success!  Plus, your child will gain the additional benefits that rhyming inherently provides.

 

The visual and auditory pictures created by the rhymes and illustrations facilitate easy recall of not only each letter’s name, shape, and sound but also how to correctly form each letter when writing it. Meet a few of our letters below for examples.

 

• Reciting letter C’s rhyme, your child can recall that letter C looks like a circle; however, her right side remains open where the cats come in to doze.

 

C is a circle that doesn’t quite close.
Her right side stays open where cats like to doze.

C – Cats

 

• Reciting letter K’s rhyme, your child can visualize letter K flying the kite and recall that her right arm is stretched up and her right leg sticks forward for balance.

 

With her right arm stretched up, K can fly her kite high.
Her right side stays open for balance, that’s why.

K – Kite

 

Children learn best through playful experiences, all of which serve as a springboard for literacy and help inspire subsequent reading and writing success. Recite the rhymes during play and while observing letters in daily and routine events. Add the rhymes to games and other fun activities that stimulate exploration and discovery.

 

As you read the book, engage your child in conversations about the letters and their activities that promote imaginative thinking. For example, why do you think letter I loves books? How can you stay fit like letter F? What would you cook at a barbeque with letter B?

 

• Younger children can point to their own head, arm, belly, etc., as you read about the letters’ anatomy.

• Teach right, left, top, bottom, and diagonal direction as you discuss the letters’ shapes.

• Trace the letters and write them in the air as you recite the rhymes.

• Repeat the key word for each letter to reinforce its sound and ask your child to think of more words with the same sound.

• Count the objects on each page and name all the colors and shapes you see, for example, letter P’s tablecloth is made up of squares.

 

E has three right arms from her top to her toes.
And everyone stares, everywhere she goes.

E – Everyone

 

T stands tall hauling timber on top of his head.
He’s building a tree house and painting it red.

T – Timber