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Elfabet: An ABC of Elves

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I bought the book for the art work first. Then I found that trying to name all the things very stimulating for adults as well as children. Each person in my family took turns with a page and tried to guess what all the items were according to the letter of the page. The short sentences are fun, when you try to say them fast. We made a game of that too. We really enjoyed this book a great deal.

I sent this to my 2 1/2 year old goddess daughter for Yule. Last night she told me that she loves it and she kisses each fairy (elf) good night every night (her mother confirmed it). It's become her favorite book...

I love Jane Yolen, but wondered how she was going to pull off an alphabet book. After all, we're just talking about the ABCs, right?

In (...)Elfabet(...), Yolen imagines all sorts of elves working their way through the alphabet. Each elf has its own poem, describing the action on the page alliteratively. Lovingly illustrated by Lauren Mills, children can look through the pictures to find other words on the page that begin with the chosen letter. Our hands-down favorite is L-(...)the Lazy Lolipop Elf.

This book has helped my daughter with her alphabet, as well as her puzzle-solving skills, and it's funny to boot.

The large, first edition, is unavailable any where and is the best. The second edition is printed from
the book and is a mini book... very nice, but not the value of the 8 1/2 by 11. See if you can find
out from the seller which book you are buying, and if you have the larger one it is a collector's item!

Elfabet is a cute little fairy alphabet book. Each letter has a page dedicated to it and only has things on that page that begin with that letter and has a short rhyme. For example. the letter A has a picture of an acorn, an apple, and ant and an apple blossom and a little sprite. And in the border of the picture there is an aardvark, an alligator, and alpine asters. The rhyme describes the elf's action and for A is as follows, A is for Acorn Elf always acrobatic. Fun for all ages.

who doesn't love elves? the art is amazing. so much fun just too look at!