Alphabetter

By Dan Bar-el and Graham Ross

Did you ever try to use an egg in place of a football? Or dress up a live quail in doll's clothes when you didn't have a doll? Or strap rag-dolls onto your feet in place of slippers? In Alphabetter twenty-six boys and girls find themselves in twenty-six different predicaments when the alphabet refuses to cooperate with them. In the end, the solution turns out to be right on the next page, if only they can find it …

• Language: English
• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• Release date: Sep 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781554693276

Dan Bar-el

Dan Bar-el is an award-winning children’s author, educator, and storyteller whose books include Audrey (Cow), Not Your Typical Dragon, and The Very, Very Far North series. Dan has worked with children ages three to thirteen as a school-age childcare provider, a preschool teacher, a creative drama teacher, and a creative writing teacher. He also teaches with the Creative Writing for Children Society. Dan lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with artist and goldsmith Dominique Bréchault, and Sasha, the most adorable cat in the known universe. Visit him at DanBarel.com.

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[francescadefreitas · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

In this wonderful picture book, a child is missing a critical item, and instead is stuck with something worse than useless. - Alberto needs a bathing suit to enjoy his book - instead he's stuck with an alligator. Poor Benoît does have a bathing suit, but it no use to him when he's trying to play the clarinet!This is a clever and entertaining concept - but the book goes much further. On each page, the kid's situation is illustrated in hilarious detail, one lad is lacking a slipper in his audition for the school play - 'Cinderfella'. There's a great deal of fun to be had in picking out the small details in eahc picture. Also, the relevant letter is hidden somewhere in the picture - some are easy to find, but some are very tricky to spot.