Customer Reviews

Abadaba Alphabet

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My nephew, age three loves this book. We sat and turned the pages while listening to Jim Weiss read to us on the CD that comes with the book. My nephew started imitating the sounds right away and stayed with the story for almost the entire book, which is far longer than he stays with ordinary picture books. After the CD was finished he wanted to turn the pages himself and would point to each animal and make its particular sound. The rhyming, the illustrations and the CD are wonderful and especially entertaining for the wiggly little preschooler. I plan to buy this for all my little friends!

Beckie Weinheimer, author of Converting Kate Viking Books

I haven't seen another book like this one - it hits spot on - my friends' kids love it. It's making an impact already - the combination of unique words and super interesting drawings. It's definitely a hit! The cd is great, too, but the words and illustrations in the book really make this worth having for your child. I wouldn't be surprised to see this book win a number of awards in the children's book world - it's just so unique, whimsical and fun!

This is a fabulous, fun book that provides an essential foundation for phonics in a delightful fun-filled way. It's impossible to read without laughing or smiling at every page. The clever rhymes are on a quality with the genuis Dr. Seuss, and the pictures alone are worth the price of the book. They show darling animal antics, all smiling and happy and some suble humor included as well. It's one of my grandchildren's favorites that they turn to again and again. I buy it for all the young children I want to gift for it will be a continual delight and a "keeper." Don't miss this mother-daughter collaboration. Donate one to your school or library if it's not already available. --Ms. Dell Erwin

This is one of the few books my daughter pulls down off the shelf for herself. Most often she brings it to me demanding,"Read it," but on occasion I've caught her alone in her room with this book open in her lap. She can't read quite yet, but there's no doubt this book will help her get there.

Ms. Sheila Moore, the author, and Ms. Carol Holsinger, the illustrator, have collaborated in "Abadaba Alphabet" and created the perfect prequel to No Child Left Behind. There should be no children left at the starting gate with this early reading book. Ms. Moore's imaginative alliteration in the lines "cupcakes, crickets, cockatoos, cows in cantaloupe canoes" for the letter C certainly surpasses Dr. Seuss' "aunt Annie's alligator" for the letter A. Ms. Holsinger's illustrations are detailed delights as you actually get to picture heifers, safely attired in life jackets, paddling melon canoes down the stream. This book should become a children's classic.

Kindergarten teacher Sheila Moore and her artistically talented daughter Carol Holsinger present Abadaba Alphabet: Learning Letter Sounds, an ABC picturebook that blends funny nonsense sounds and alliteration of words starting with letters help young people learn the alphabet. For example, the page devoted to the letter U reads "Adbadaba alphabet, / upsydaisydoo, / see a letter sound a letter, / U U U / uncles rest in ugly chairs, / umbrella birds unpack upstairs" and features a whimsical drawing of uncles resting and umbrella birds unpacking. An accompanying 11-minute audio CD of award-winning recording artist Jim Weiss narrating the charming alphabet rhymes enhances this creative and just plain fun-to-read introduction to the alphabet.

My preschool age grandchildren love this book. When they come for a visit they look forward to reading books with Grandma. This is one of their favorites. The rhyming makes it a lot of fun for them and they enjoy repeating the word and letter sounds from the CD. The illustrations are magical and go a long way toward making this book a delight to read. Every time we look at the book we find something new on the pages that we didn't see before. It's very reminiscent of the Dr. Seuss books that I used to read to their parents. I think a lot of little children are going to grow up with fond memories of the Abadaba Alphabet book.

We read Abadaba Alphabet with our four year old daughter. While there are similarities to Graeme Base's work, the simplified illustrations appeal to our daughter very much. She enjoys identifying everything on each page, reinforcing the letter repetition concept. This is a good book for preschoolers-enjoy!

In general I'm not very enthusiastic about rhyming alphabet books, but I was pleasantly surprised by this one. The illustrations also go a lonnnng way in raising this book above the pile of ordinary ones, as they're whimsical but realistically rendered, and give more meaning to the text, which, because it's a rhyming alphabet book (did I mention my bias?) doesn't really tell a story. (Frankly, I would like to see the "vultures viewing videos" crane a bit more over the TV screen, but the yaks' "yummy hats" really do look good enough to eat.)

The included CD is nice, but more of a lesson than a game, so my three-year-old prefers the book to the CD. (I bet it would be a different story if it were a computer game!)

While I think early preschool-age kids can enjoy this book, my guess is that older kids (four- and five-year-olds) will get more out of this than three year olds.

One thing I really like about the book is that the author includes tips for parents/teachers on the bottom right corner of each page, encouaging them to say, "say the W in w-agon" and "say the Z in z-oo." A great help to get ready for Kindergarten!

I have used this popper for many years...can't remember when I bought it. It's great...I love it. My son borrowed it two months ago and I thought what a great Christmas present...now I can get mine back. The only problem was removing the sticky labels...it took several washings to get the goo off. Now It's great....I reuse the reflector many times buy whiping it with paper towel. You will love it...and the price is great. It was a well designed and simple useful device. Don