Beautiful, educational and fun. Just perfect. ( )

Meh. Thought the facts were interesting, but the illustrations and color weren't strong.

An Animal Alphabet by Elisha Cooper makes alphabet come alive with her detailed, lively animal pictures. She also makes this book a bit of a counting book encouraging her audience to find the animal that is present on each page eight times. At the end of the book she leaves a small fact about each animal presented in the book. The theme of the book is animals. In class, we can focus on the number eight and read this book to not only learn about animals, but we can work on our counting too.

Animal names begin with different letters. This book collects animals and arranges them according to the first letter of their name. So, for example, alligators and aardvarks come before bears and badgers.

This is a fun book in how it introduces the reader to a wide range of vocabulary (animal names). The pages are beautifully illustrated with the animals of each word listed. However, there's no story, so there's no plot, action or resolution. It is basically just an alphabetical list of animals, illustrated.

I might not use this one during story time because there are so many great books to read from our school's library and so little time for story time each day. That said, I would use this one-on-one with my own kids at bedtime reading. I think it's a book where a mom or dad can point to a drawing and the child can name the animal. And the animal names are located at the bottom of each page, so the child can have a reference. That would be fun. A parent could also say "How many lions do you see?" and the child could count the drawings of the lions. This works because sometimes the animals are drawn multiple times on the page. ( )

A fun version of an animal alphabet book. Readers will explore both common and unusual animals as they simultaneously learn the letters of the alphabet. ( )