Product Description

With heartwarming illustrations and fun rhymes, this alphabet book is perfect for grandchildren and grandparents alike!

Visiting grandparents is always an adventure, whether rooting through drawers, playing pretend, or relaxing and reading together in a comfortable chair. Join two boisterous siblings as they leave home to be guests on their grandparents' farm during different seasons of the year. Providing fun rhymes like "the songs we sing while we sit on the swing," and "an oak tree to climb one limb at a time," both adults and children will have fun singing and reading along together, as they learn the alphabet!

Yumi Heo's whimsical illustrations provide the perfect complement to the rhythm of Ona Gritz's jubilant ABC text. Grandchildren of all ages will recognize themselves in this book's appreciative look at the warmth and happiness that grandparents provide.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1380585 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 32 pages

From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 1–Alphabetical alliterative rhymes describe the experiences of two children spending time with their grandparents. A farm where we're free to pick fruit off a tree and the songs we sing while we sit on the swing are what these siblings enjoy most with their relatives. Unfortunately, the corresponding letters of the alphabet are not showcased with the rhymes, making this a weak concept book. Each page includes a pencil-and-oil painting that clearly conveys the happiness that these children feel in the company of their grandparents. Floors, wallpaper prints, quilts, lampshades, crockery, and curtains offer layers of delightful patterns to engage the eye. Buy this for its charming testament to time together and its enchanting artwork; for a beautifully illustrated concept book, try Alison Jay's ABC: A Child's First Alphabet Book (Dutton, 2003).–Kristine M. Casper, Huntington Public Library, NY
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From Booklist
PreS-K. "Zithers and guitars beneath zillions of stars." The sound and beat of the words are as much fun as the full-page oil-and-pencil pictures in this alphabet book about two preschoolers who visit their grandparents' farm at various times through the seasons. The rhyme uses lots of alliteration ("The corner of the world where the cat lies curled"), and the bright, playful illustrations, both detailed and clear, will encourage kids to look closely and find more objects to talk about, including some with the same letter. Each page presents a situation, almost a story. A quiet scene for the letter L ("The line of light that I look for at night") shows a girl standing in a lamplit room staring at a falling star in the dark sky; then there's the slapstick picture of "a boy in a bath with a bubbly laugh." A book for sharing and teaching. Hazel Rochman
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About the Author
Ona Gritz is a Youth Services Librarian in Hoboken New Jersey. She studied writing at New York University and her poetry as appeared in numerous journals and anthologies in including Poetry East and The American Voice. She lives with her family in Hoboken. This is her second book for children.

Yumi Heo was born and raised in Korea. She has written and illustrated four picture books and illustrated many others. In addition to her children's books, Heo's illustrations have appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Business Week, and Forbes. Hoe teaches at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, and lives in White Plains, New York, with her family.

Customer Reviews

Warm words and pretty pictures
Working more on sound identification than letter recognition, this is a good alphabet book for the slightly older crowd. With each page or spread featuring a letter sound, the book outlines the fun activities that a boy and girl have when visiting grandparents, from a bubbly bath to a perfect friend for playing pretend and ending with zithers and guitars under zillions of stars. Simple colorful illustrations are a plus with lots of geometric shapes - round smiling faces, triangular bodies, and rain falling in straight lines. A good read-aloud for preschool-1st grade.

anderson
Cute children's book. It was a gift and the people said their 2 year old really liked it. That's what it is all about!