Living Alphabet [Hardcover]

Famke Zonneveld (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up

In this delightful picture-alphabet game book for young children each consonant and vowel comes alive with its own unique qualities in the world—a Cat naps on a carpet conjuring cows and conch shells, clocks and crows, cubes and columns—a Girl gives grain to geese in a gated garden, watched over by giraffes and grasshoppers, gondolas and grapes, gourds and a geodesic globe—Mermaids muse in the moonlight under mountains surrounded by monkeys and moose, minarets and mice, mosquitoes and a menorah.

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About the Author

Famke Zonneveld, born in Indonesia in 1938, is an art teacher and an artist in watercolor, stained glass, lazure wall painting, and fiber arts. She taught crafts and the history of architecture at the Rudolf Steiner School in NYC. Famke studied Goethe's color theories with Donald Hall, a student of Beppe Assensa. Her works are in the Chase Manhattan Bank collection, the New Milford Jewish Center in New Jersey, the St. John the Divine Church in Schenectady, and numerous private collections. She lives and works in western Massachusetts.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Bell Pond Books; 1 edition (August 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 088010516X
• ISBN-13: 978-0880105163
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,923,368 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Love the book...but one page kind of spoils it all, June 26, 2010

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BellaRella "Bella" (Sunny SE USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Living Alphabet (Hardcover)

I loved this book. It's beautiful. So refreshing for children to see the alphabet presented with such life and beauty. My 3 year old wanted to learn the alphabet. Although Waldorf education, which we integrate into our lives, doesn't recommend learning it this early, I knew I had to start him somewhere...lest he begin to use the free alphabet cards he found in a magazine that came to us in the mail ("free" cards which featured a minivan add on the other side)!! I digress....the one downer for this book...the letter *I* features a Native American as an "Indian", and it's the primary focus of the page. There are also Inuits on this page. Why couldn't they be the focus?? My son is confused about people from India and Native Americans ("Indians") anyhow. And to top it off...this is also, in my opinion, the only truly UGLY illustration in the whole book. The "Indian" is sulking, standing stiff as a board....Please, if this page could be fixed, I think it's a near perfect book. It is worth buying, if you can overlook the "Indian"....and your children will learn from it (and you may too).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun for the whole family, August 12, 2005

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Ann Booker "ann'sbooks" (Columbia, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Living Alphabet (Hardcover)

We used this book as a fun time for our family. We look at the pictures and told stories or just pointed different images (which was fun for my 18 months old) we made the sounds each picture start with, before the end of the month my five years old daughter learned (not memorised) her alphabet. More important she can tell stories about each letter to her baby sister and we still use the book as a family story book. I would highly recomend it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully illustrated Waldorf approach alphabet book., September 4, 2006

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Albert "prontobooks" (PRESCOTT, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Living Alphabet (Hardcover)

The most inspiring alphabet book. Waldorf style learning method. Could be an example for classroom teaching, or home schooling, or simply complement what the child is seeing in school.