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All Around the Town is a 1948 picture book written by Phyllis McGinley and illustrated by Helen Stone. The book is a rhyming alphabet book exploring a town. The book was a recipient of a 1949 Caldecott Honor for its illustrations. [1]
Sue Taylor Grafton (April 24, 1940 – December 28, 2017) was an American author of detective novels.She is best known as the author of the "alphabet series" ("A" Is for Alibi, etc.) featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California.
A French alphabet book printed in 1861. An alphabet book is a type of children's book giving basic instruction in an alphabet. Intended for young children, alphabet books commonly use pictures, simple language and alliteration to aid language learning. Alphabet books are published in several languages, and some distinguish the capitals and ...
The American Girl product line aimed to teach aspects of American history through a six-book series from the perspective of a girl living in that period. The company would go on to produce dolls, books, and historically accurate accessories (now known as the Historical Characters.) Rowland described the American Girl dolls as "chocolate cake ...
Some of the best-known picture books are Robert McCloskey's Make Way for Ducklings, Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat, and Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. The Caldecott Medal (established 1938) is awarded annually for the best American picture book. Since the mid-1960s, several children's literature awards have included a category for ...
The Bench (book) Berenstain Bears; Best Word Book Ever; Big Al (book) Big Al and Shrimpy; Big Cat, Little Cat; The Big Honey Hunt; A Big Mooncake for Little Star; The Big Orange Splot; The Big Pets; Big Pumpkin; The Big Snow; Big Susan; Billy and Blaze; Bink & Gollie; The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories; Bird (book) Birdsong (picture book)
It was the first book in the first of the "Redfield's Toy Books" series, a four-part series of 48 children's books. [4] The selling price for Tom Thumb's Picture Alphabet was 1 cent. [ 5 ] The wood engravings, designed by John Gadsby Chapman, [ 4 ] were considered plain and simple illustrations. [ 3 ]
Alpha One, also known as Alpha One: Breaking the Code, was a first and second grade program introduced in 1968, and revised in 1974, [8] that was designed to teach children to read and write sentences containing words containing three syllables in length and to develop within the child a sense of his own success and fun in learning to read by using the Letter People characters. [9]