Alphabet Rescue [Hardcover]

Audrey Wood (Author), Bruce Wood (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2006 | Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up

Bestselling writer Audrey Wood and her artist son Bruce Wood team up to present an alphabet book in this popular series. Now the little letters build a fire truck and save the day!

Engaging alphabet books are perennial bestsellers with unlimited demand, and so are books about fire trucks. This splendid book is a surefire winner! As in their previous collaborations, the Woods bring lowercase letters to life in a fun adventure that is sure to have children learning their alphabet without even realizing they are studying. In this action-packed adventure, we witness the lowercase letters as they save the day and the uppercase letters. Riding in a fire truck they fixed themselves, these lowercase letters become heroes with firehoses!

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 1–When Charley leaves to visit his grandparents for summer vacation, his lowercase alphabet letters travel on a pencil to their hometown of Alphabet City. The little letters' adventures include fixing up an old fire engine, cleaning M-u-d from a car, rescuing a C-a-t from a tree, and saving the day when the capital letters' fire engine spins out of control and cannot get to the fire at the letter-making factory. Readers will enjoy this sweet story and have fun identifying letters in the text and illustrations. As in the Woods' Alphabet Adventure (2001) and Alphabet Mystery (2003, both Scholastic), the pages are filled with 3-D-style digital artwork, creating a self-contained alphabet world.–Marilyn Ackerman, Brooklyn Public Library, NY
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From Booklist

This third adventure with Charley's alphabet, created by a mother-son team, engages the "little" letters in a competition with the capital letters. The alphabet worked hard all year to help Charley learn to read and write, and it was ready for a vacation. Soaring off on a pencil to Alphabet City, the little letters discover a broken-down fire engine. When they fix it up, it becomes a vehicle for letter rescues, including one of the capital letters when their own truck blows a tire. The shiny, bright images in the digitally rendered illustrations add dimension to the action. To stand out from the black text, the letter symbol in the character's name (Little b, Chief F) is printed in red. This will encourage phonics games and a-b-c-learning, though it will work best if the audience is familiar with the previous books. Julie Cummins
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Hardcover: 40 pages
• Publisher: The Blue Sky Press; 1 edition (September 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439853168
• ISBN-13: 978-0439853163
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 11 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,486 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

AUDREY WOOD is the much-loved author of more than thirty books for children, including the bestselling The Napping House, Piggies, Heckedy Peg, and most recently, Piggy Pie Po, which she collaborated on with her husband, Don Wood.
She lives in Hawaii.

My first memories are of Sarasota, Florida in the winter quarters of the Ringling Brothers' Circus. I was one year old and remember it vividly. My father, an art student, was making extra income by repainting circus murals.

The people in the circus were my friends. I was bounced on the knee of the tallest man in the world and rocked in the arms of the fat lady who could not stand up. My first baby-sitters were a family of little people who lived in a trailer next to ours. They tAudrey2old me stories about the animals they worked with: Chi Chi the Chimpanzee, an elephant named Elder, and Gargantua the Gorilla.

My mother says I was a fast learner, always ahead of my age. My father taught me to swim before I could walk. I walked at seven months and climbed over a seven foot chain link fence when I was one year old. Everyone in the circus thought I was going to be a trapeze artist.

When I was two, I traveled with my parents to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where they studied art. Spanish became my second language. Because my mother read to me every day, I fell in love with books and was reading by age three.

My parents had two more girls, which made me the oldest sister. All of us were trained in the arts: music, dance, painting, and drama. We had a miniature stage in our basement, complete with light-bulb floodlights and a dusty red velvet curtain. Admission for the plays we produced was a bargain--twenty-five cents.

When I was in the first grade, I wanted to grow up to be an artist like my father. Then, in the fourth grade, I decided I'd like to be a children's book author. As an adult who writes and illustrates children's books, I have realized both my childhood ambitions.

I got in trouble in school once for crossing out my favorite author's name and putting in mine--Audrey Brewer instead of Dr. Seuss!

My great-grandfather, grandfather, and father were all professional artists. Since I am also a professional artist, there are four consecutive generations of artists in our family. However, I am the only female artist.

On our honeymoon, I read my new husband Don Wood the classic children's book entitled At the Back of the North Wind. Seven years later, we teamed up to create our first picture book together.

When our son Bruce Robert was two years old, I began to read picture books to him. He helped to remind me of my childhood ambitions. That's when I began to write children's books seriously.

www.Audreywood.com

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars He LOVES it!, January 9, 2007

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My son loves this book and all of the Alphabet books by Audrey Wood. We started reading them together when he was 2 1/2 and the books quickly became his favorites. He has them all memorized and we incorporate "ABC adventures" into stories that we make up for him every night before he goes to sleep. I highly, highly recommend this book and the others by Audrey Wood.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A hit!, January 3, 2008

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My son loves Alphabet Adventure, and Alphabet Rescue is a new favorite. These books are great for looking at letters with a fun story to go along.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A GREAT book for learning letters!, January 27, 2007

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My three year old fell in love with the first two books in this series. She is now four and was ecstatic to receive the newest book, Alphabet Rescue, for Christmas. She love getting to know the upper and lower case letters!