This delightful full color, fully illustrated book of saints introduces the reader to 26 Catholic Saints in a charming rhyme. The bright joyful illustrations of Brenda Nippert will help this book become a favorite of an entire generation of young readers. Great read-a-loud to the family! 64pp, 8.5" by 8.5" book.
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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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I am glad someone finally jumped on the idea of teaching the ABCs through the saints... I bought this with grand hopes that were slightly tempered once I read it.
On the upside, it is indeed sweet to see so many examples of good Christians corresponding to each letter. You learn a wee bit with each rhyme.
I'm only giving it 4 stars because it seems like this book has so much more POTENTIAL. For example, why isn't it offered in hardcover? A gem like Catholic ABCs should have the option to be a keeper that'll last through many little hands of many big families.
Secondly, the illustrations disappointed me. And I admit this is fully a personal preference thing. But for one thing, the saints are all hanging onto the letter in some way that a child can't actually get a clear view of the letter... which kind of defeats the purpose of an ABC book. But the biggest turn-off for me was just how cartoony it was. All the saints have perfect, Hollywood-pearly white smiles. There is so much rich art out there with all the saints, it would have been nice to expose some of that to little ones. Not everything needs to be sugary sweet in children's world; it'd do them good to see some vibrant, non-Saturday-morning-cartoonish artwork every now and again.
But the book did inspire me to make my own little saint ABC book: it was fun to choose the saints that are our family's patrons or namesakes or just 'favorites'... found some lovely, RICH, pictures online to print off and glue to cardstock. I'm including little facts like feast day, patronage of ___, and so on. Bind it all up at a local office store and you have a darling homemade treasure to cherish or give as a gift.
That said, art is subjective... so take my opinion with a grain of salt!
On the upside, it is indeed sweet to see so many examples of good Christians corresponding to each letter. You learn a wee bit with each rhyme.
I'm only giving it 4 stars because it seems like this book has so much more POTENTIAL. For example, why isn't it offered in hardcover? A gem like Catholic ABCs should have the option to be a keeper that'll last through many little hands of many big families.
Secondly, the illustrations disappointed me. And I admit this is fully a personal preference thing. But for one thing, the saints are all hanging onto the letter in some way that a child can't actually get a clear view of the letter... which kind of defeats the purpose of an ABC book. But the biggest turn-off for me was just how cartoony it was. All the saints have perfect, Hollywood-pearly white smiles. There is so much rich art out there with all the saints, it would have been nice to expose some of that to little ones. Not everything needs to be sugary sweet in children's world; it'd do them good to see some vibrant, non-Saturday-morning-cartoonish artwork every now and again.
But the book did inspire me to make my own little saint ABC book: it was fun to choose the saints that are our family's patrons or namesakes or just 'favorites'... found some lovely, RICH, pictures online to print off and glue to cardstock. I'm including little facts like feast day, patronage of ___, and so on. Bind it all up at a local office store and you have a darling homemade treasure to cherish or give as a gift.
That said, art is subjective... so take my opinion with a grain of salt!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By Jean Haze
I teach first grade at a catholic school, and this book really helped prepare for All Saints Day. The illustrations were great. Each Saint had a rhyming part, which the kids understood, as well as a little more factual information. I highly recommend this book.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By B.W.
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I thought this was a cute little book for young children. There is a little rhyme and information about each saint. The only thing I did not like was that many of the Alphabet letters are covered by the saint picture, so the child can not see clearly what the letter looks like.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars
It was more basic than I thought.
My Granddaughter is 7 and I guess this was too young for her. The good thing was that it made her want to read more about the saints and get to know them better. Read more
Published 29 days ago by A. Aaronson
3.0 out of 5 stars
Cute book, but not well made!
We are using this for our pre-school curriculum for homeschooling. It is a great book but it isn't well made. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Smith
3.0 out of 5 stars
A somewhat problematic book
Overall, I enjoyed this book and thought the conception and execution were well done. I gave it 3 stars for 2 reasons: I was sorry to see a major typo on the "K" page -- Kateri... Read more
Published on June 22, 2010 by A. Douglas
5.0 out of 5 stars
A is for St. Anne as well as a ledge for sitting...
"An Alphabet of Catholic Saints"--what a creative, unusual alphabet book! Perhaps one of a kind!
As librarian in a small PreK-8 Catholic school, I just added this book... Read more
As librarian in a small PreK-8 Catholic school, I just added this book... Read more
Published on November 27, 2008 by Judy K. Polhemus
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