Product Description

A IS FOR ANNABELLE, GRANDMOTHER'S DOLL,
B FOR HER BOX ON THE CHEST IN THE HALL.

Learn the alphabet from A to Z with the help of Annabelle the doll. Each gorgeously illustrated spread features one of her favorite things. With an antique box, a parasol, and yarn for mending, children can learn the alphabet in grand style.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #153499 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780689869969
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Amazon.com Review
Young children will welcome the return of a classic from the mother of children's illustrators, Tasha Tudor. A Is for Annabelle is a quaint, old-fashioned alphabet book graced with Tudor's intricately detailed, highly appealing illustrations. Annabelle is a china doll that belonged to Grandmother. Two little girls play their way through the alphabet, dressing up this lovely doll ("H is her Hat with an elegant feather") all the way through X ("the letter for which I've no rhyme"), Y ("the Yarn her stockings to mend"), and Z ("her Zither and this is the end"). Alternating black-and-white illustrations with full-color spreads, Tudor surrounds each page with a graceful floral border and includes such charming details as a sewing basket with a pincushion, a cricket peering at a pink patchwork quilt, and the tiny boxes containing Annabelle's hats, slippers, and earrings. Little girls will find Annabelle and her alphabetical wardrobe irresistible.

Tasha Tudor is the Caldecott Honor artist of 1 Is One and more than 90 other well-loved picture books. (Ages 3 to 7) --Emilie Coulter

From Publishers Weekly
Doll lovers of all ages will welcome the alphabet book homage A Is for Annabelle by Tasha Tudor, starring an exquisitely appointed doll and her accoutrements. Originally published in 1954, the volume alternates full-color spreads with b&w drawings, all steeped in Tudor's customary charm.

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About the Author
Tasha Tudor is a Caldecott artist with more than ninety books to her credit. She is known across the world for her glowing watercolor decpictions of the American rural scene of a century ago and for her exquisite paintings of children, flowers, and animals. Tasha Tudor is also the illustrator of A Child's Garden of Verses, The Night Before Christmas, The Springs of Joy, A Time to Keep, The Dolls' Christmas, All for Love, Pumpkin Moonshine, A Tale for Easter, A is for Annabelle, and 1 is One, a Caldecott Honor Book. She lives in Vermont.

Customer Reviews

The best picture book, bar none.
My great-grandmother gave me this book as a child and I have loved it ever since. Much to my dismay, the pages of my copy were destroyed in a sprinkler accident many years ago and I am desperate to find another. The illustrations in "A is for Annabelle" bring to life a dreamlike era of Western history. Though some of the items listed are so bygone that we may not recognize them now, their ethereal quality somehow evokes a nostalgic sigh. Now that I have a daughter of my own, I want nothing more than to share this childhood favorite with her and let her know that there is beauty outside of Teletubbies.

A Treasure
Who can resist Tasha Tudor's lovely illustrations? This ABC book starts with Annabelle, the antique doll, and goes on to show her bonnet, cape, and wonderful clothes and accessories.
I loved this book when I was little. The idea of a doll having her own trunk really intrigued me in the late 1950s. Everyone was getting those ballerina dolls, but I wanted an old-fashioned doll like Annabelle. My mother must have liked it too, as she sewed up a wardrobe from scraps to transform my doll into one like Annabelle.
Treat your little one to this book and start them on the path to enjoying and treasuring things from the past.

Generation to Generation
This is a book I remimber from my childhood. It was the first friend I found at the library. Learning to read was very hard for me but I wanted to be able to read this book so much I keep trying. My daughter also loved this book. She is already planing to share it with her daughter and granddaughter some distant day. This book has also inspired a doll colection of hers. Tasha Tudor's soft rich illistrations inspire lingering over. This book is for the 4-6 set what "The Secret Garden" and "Anne of Green Gables" are for older girls pure girlhood, classic lititure. Don't miss putting this one on the shelf of your little one.