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Serious silliness for all ages. Artist Sandra Boynton is back and better than ever with completely redrawn versions of her multi-million selling board books. These whimsical and hilarious books, featuring nontraditional texts and her famous animal characters, have been printed on thick board pages, and are sure to educate and entertain children of all ages.
14 pages, Board book
First published January 1, 1984
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Sandra Boynton
157Ìýbooks1,082ÌýfollowersSandra Keith Boynton is an American humorist, songwriter, director, music producer, children's author, and illustrator. Boynton has written and illustrated over eighty-five books for children and seven general audience books, as well as over four thousand greeting cards, and seven music albums. She has also designed calendars, wallpaper, bedding, stationery, paper goods, clothing, jewelry, and plush toys for various companies.
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May 4, 2022
Amusing animal alliteration amazes as alphabet advances appropriately . . . to Z.
February 11, 2017
Zebra, yak and xylo I saw coming a mile away. I have no idea what a vicuña is and ugly birds is just cheating.
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April 18, 2023
I still think the letter U bit was a bit of a throwaway, but it’s otherwise a decent alphabet book.
August 12, 2023
Excellent illustration but hard to read more than once
September 19, 2022
My 1 year old likes this book so much that I know the whole book by heart! My favorite part is Lions leaving as my little girlie is a Leo (Lioness) who is constantly leaving (running away from me! Hahah)
January 31, 2018
It is a colorful book for a parent to read to young ones. It is also good for those learning letters to try this book. The drawings are silly.
March 17, 2019
Very cute, sweet, fun, and short. I love Boynton's art style. The roundness of her characters intrigue babies and the flowing rhymes make it easy for mommy or daddy to read to them. One of the best for starting your child's early education. We started reading this to our son when he was about 3 months old and had to buy another when his sister was born.
Congratulations to all you new parents out there!
Lots of Love,
shizuku
Congratulations to all you new parents out there!
Lots of Love,
shizuku
August 20, 2013
Another wonderful Sandra Boynton book with everything we love about her, especially the adorable illustrations! From A to Z, we see animals doing fun things to help convey alliteration to readers. And my 3 yr old twins, who are learning not only their alphabet, but the sounds that go with the alphabet letters, love this book. A great way to reinforce the letter sounds in a fun and engaging way. A big hit with our family.
January 11, 2017
Good book with some new words to learn that I hadn't heard before! Fun pictures. Gave it 4 stars because, as with any alphabet book at the moment, I usually can only sit still until about the letter K.
August 20, 2016
A boring but necessary part of every author's body of work?
August 22, 2021
This is a small board book filled with animals doing various things. The book begins from A and goes to Z and each letter is represented by an animal doing something. The letters are in capital letters on the page (usually 2 letters to a page) and sometimes the letter is part of the action and sometimes, it’s not. For example, the letter M it states - MOOSE MOWING - the picture is a moose mowing the green letter M which has grass growing on it. The letter D it states - DINOSAUR DANCING - the picture is a green dinosaur dancing through a red D.
I liked that the alphabet letters were all capital letters and there were only 2 to one page. This was consistent and didn't over crowd the page. The illustrations were cute and the letters were bright and colorful and the animals weren't which made the letters stand out. I liked the vocabulary used in the text. I was disappointed in a few of the letters: V, X,U after all the rest of the letter were creative and something children could relate to. It will help little ones enhance their learning by using words such as jackal, admiring, zigzagging, nesting, etc. My grandson loves his ABC's, I can't wait to see how he likes this book.
I liked that the alphabet letters were all capital letters and there were only 2 to one page. This was consistent and didn't over crowd the page. The illustrations were cute and the letters were bright and colorful and the animals weren't which made the letters stand out. I liked the vocabulary used in the text. I was disappointed in a few of the letters: V, X,U after all the rest of the letter were creative and something children could relate to. It will help little ones enhance their learning by using words such as jackal, admiring, zigzagging, nesting, etc. My grandson loves his ABC's, I can't wait to see how he likes this book.
March 11, 2018
copyright:1984
Number of pages: 8
Format: Hardcover
reading level: Grades preK-1
genre: Baby book
Lit. requirement: ABC #2
Summary:
This is a simple quick read and will be entertaining to babies and toddlers. It is a board book and there are three letters per page. There are two words for the start of a letter the first word are animals and the second word is an action. The words are alliterations for example C is for Cats Cleaning.
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I like this book because of how simple it is and because of what some of the animals are like Uglybirds being ugly for U. Some of the animals are made up. This is an entertaining book and I would recommend it.
Number of pages: 8
Format: Hardcover
reading level: Grades preK-1
genre: Baby book
Lit. requirement: ABC #2
Summary:
This is a simple quick read and will be entertaining to babies and toddlers. It is a board book and there are three letters per page. There are two words for the start of a letter the first word are animals and the second word is an action. The words are alliterations for example C is for Cats Cleaning.
Response:
I like this book because of how simple it is and because of what some of the animals are like Uglybirds being ugly for U. Some of the animals are made up. This is an entertaining book and I would recommend it.
January 26, 2023
My son loves to say the letter on the page, and then I say the corresponding coupling like “Zebras Zigzaging� or “Moose Mowing�.
Super cute illustrations. I love any book that involves my child in the reading process. This one got a “read it one more time�, but 5 more times.
Also, bonus points for being an easy book to tack on to a bedtime routine as one extra book, or one short book to get them to sleep quickly.
Super cute illustrations. I love any book that involves my child in the reading process. This one got a “read it one more time�, but 5 more times.
Also, bonus points for being an easy book to tack on to a bedtime routine as one extra book, or one short book to get them to sleep quickly.
June 16, 2017
Most of this book is cute. It helps teach ABC's. My only two quips are 1. "U: Ugly Birds Being Ugly" is the least creative caption ever. Especially when "V: Vicuña Violining" follows, which is creative. 2. The "P" isn't all the way "painted" on so my toddler thinks it's the letter "I" and it does kind of look like the letter "I."
September 26, 2017
Note: this is not my review but the review of my daughter who can't have her own goodreads but does love herself a book! Therefore I will be writing them for her. She is currently 6 months old.
Mom thought this was hilarious (especially the ugly bird) but baby was unimpressed. Will revisit when older.
Mom thought this was hilarious (especially the ugly bird) but baby was unimpressed. Will revisit when older.
October 25, 2020
"Aardvarks admiring. Beavers ballooning. Cats cleaning." Each letter of the alphabet includes an animal and an action with cute, cartoony illustrations that are expected from Sandra Boynton. It's short and simple enough that it is great for little ones just familiarizing themselves with the alphabet.
May 15, 2022
For U, the animal is Ugly birds being ugly. Maybe I am being overly picky, and you would not care, but when kids are learning some of their first words, I do not think ugly should make the cut. I wish Sandra would do a revised addition with a replacement for this letter. We have the book, and no longer read it after I saw U.
April 25, 2023
Probably my favorite Sandra Boynton book we have read so far. Each letter features, a different animal, doing a different activity, and the combinations are pretty creative and often surprising. Illustrations are cute too.
Since Jack likes animals, he seem to like this book. I’m excited to see how he feels about it when he starts learning letters.
Since Jack likes animals, he seem to like this book. I’m excited to see how he feels about it when he starts learning letters.
October 15, 2024
This book exposes children to the alphabet. It uses familiar animals with the same starting letter. Then a descriptor word that also starts with the same letter as well. So, it has alliteration. The pictures help the students make the connections between something they know and the new letters. I would use this book as a library book that students could use for exposure to the alphabet.
February 13, 2021
This is a good alphabet book including lots of animals, alliterations, and gerunds (noun-like verbs that end in -ing such as 'jumping'). The illustrations are in the classic Sandra Boynton style with each animal performing the action being described (e.g. "Cats Cleaning" shows an illustration of two cats cleaning the 'C'). It's a nice, simple alphabet book.
February 8, 2024
Sandra Boynton has a pretty good gig going, writing and illustrating books with her trademark rotund, big-eyed animals. It's hard to rate an ABC book, but this one has cute pictures of animals doing alliterative activities for each letter of the alphabet.
February 1, 2017
I definitely consider this a classic for your child's bookshelf - regardless of the intention and purpose of your library, a good solid book about the alphabet is a necessity!
June 17, 2017
cute alphabetical animals!
September 9, 2017
Love her, this one just doesn't compare to her others
November 6, 2017
Another fabulous addition to the collection of ABC books. This one from the ever-humorous Sandra Boynton. Also can be used to teach alliteration and rhyming.
February 13, 2018
Simple. Fun. Per... wait, X is... wait.
OK, I'm OK with that. More X animals need to be iron mongers.
OK, I'm OK with that. More X animals need to be iron mongers.
April 18, 2018
Not as good as Boynton's A is for Angry, but still a good A-Z book.
July 5, 2018
Each letter is depicted with a noun and a verb starting with that letter. Letter recognition and vocabulary expansion, plus it's cute!
August 9, 2018
Cute, and with some humor worked in. I don't like U: ugly birds being ugly. I humbly submit an alternative: uakari ululating.
October 17, 2018
I HATE the letters U (Ugly Birds?! Why not Unicorns??), X (what is a xylo?) and Q (Quail Quacking?? why not questioning or quivering).
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