Once Upon an Alphabet -- Oliver Jeffers, Hardcover
* An altogether stimulating, surprising, and satisfying reading experience.-School Library Journal, starred review
* Whimsical, funny, occasionally tragic, and highly entertaining, this collection of (sometimes) interlocking tales is brilliantly inventive.-Horn Book, starred review Jeffers knows how to catch the attention of his young audience while challenging their imagination, intellect and vocabulary. This whimsical exploration of letters and language begs to be read over and over again.-BookPage
Handsome, humorous and clad in bright tomato-red, this] is the sort of book you may want to rush into the arms of imaginative, good-natured children between 4 and 10 years old. T]his is no traditional abecedarian exercise.The stories are wonderfully varied, sometimes philosophical and often end surprisingly; the drawings are just as quirky and unpredictable.-The Wall Street Journal
Author: Oliver Jeffers
Publisher: Philomel Books
Published: 10/14/2014
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.09lbs
Size: 12.50h x 9.23w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780399167911
Audience: Ages 4-8
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.8
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 169651 / Once Upon an Alphabet: Short Stories for All the Letters
Award: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended
Award: Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards - Honor Book
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2014
School Library Journal 10/01/2014 pg. 85
Publishers Weekly 10/20/2014
PW Best Children's Books 11/03/2014 pg. 42
PW Children's Starred Reviews 12/01/2014 pg. 27
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2014 pg. 22
People Weekly 12/15/2014 pg. 56
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2015 pg. 65
New York Times Book Review 12/21/2014 pg. 21
BookPage 10/01/2014
About the Author
Oliver Jeffers (www.oliverjeffersworld.com) creates art for children and adults alike. His picture books, including Stuck, Lost and Found, How to Catch a Star, The Incredible Book Eating Boy, This Moose Belongs to Me, and The Day the Crayons Quit (a #1 bestseller) written by Drew Daywalt), have garnered multiple starred reviews and spots on the New York Times bestseller list. The Hueys in: The New Sweater was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year in 2012. Oliver also hand-lettered the lyric video for U2's single, Ordinary Love.Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Oliver now lives and creates art in Brooklyn, New York.
Product Tags:
Ages 4-8, Alphabet, Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction, Concepts, Hardcover, Humorous Stories, Juvenile Fiction, Oliver Jeffers, Philomel Books, PreK, Short StoriesContact form
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