My Favorite Sounds from A to Z (My Favorites) [Hardcover]

Peggy Snow (Author), Pamela Espeland (Editor), Brian Barber (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up | Series: My Favorites

SILVER MEDAL WINNER, 2008 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards

Colorful poems and lush illustrations invite children to explore and experience their world through the sounds around them. The book begins with acorns cracking under bicycle wheels and ends with zippers on sleeping bags zipping during a family camping trip. In between are flapping wings, snapping icicles, popping corn, and more. Children are encouraged to listen more closely to the sounds in their everyday lives, imagine sounds they haven't yet heard, experiment with creating sounds, and even sharpen their listening skills. Written in verse with an appealing variety of rhymes and rhythms, Sounds will delight both children and adults.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Never have the letters of the alphabet been laid out in such a refreshing and unique way as this.... With fun, energetic illustrations accompanying the original text, it reads more like a piece of children's literature than an ancient primer of the ABC's. A fantastic addition to the classroom or home. --Children's Literature

The color illustrations by Brian Barber brim with vigor and enthusiasm in this lovely read-aloud ABC book highly recommended for children's library collections. --Midwest Book Review Children's Bookwatch

About the Author

Peggy lives in Minnesota with her husband, Todd Snow, and 11-year-old daughter. She enjoys reading books of all sorts, gardening and cooking, and volunteers at her daughter's school, teaching art classes. Peggy enjoys sketching as a way of inspiration for her books, which include My Favorite Sounds from A to Z, My Favorite Places from A to Z, as well as Feelings to Share from A to Z, which she coauthored with her husband.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Maren Green Publishing; 1st edition (June 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934277029
• ISBN-13: 978-1934277027
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,185,820 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely read-aloud ABC book, November 4, 2007

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Favorite Sounds from A to Z (My Favorites) (Hardcover)

My Favorite Sounds: From A to Z is a rhyming children's picturebook that describes a sound associated with each letter of the alphabet. "Q q / Quacking Ducks / The rain has stopped and the clouds have gone away. / Quacking ducks waddle through the sunlit puddles, / Wagging their tail feathers as they walk. / I wonder if they're trying to talk, / Or if they're laughing as they splash and play." The color illustrations by Brian Barber brim with vigor and enthusiasm, in this lovely read-aloud ABC book highly recommended for children's library collections.