Angry Aardvark to Zealous Zebra: Curious Creatures ABC

by Scott Thomas

Invite children to explore the wild possibilities of the alphabet. Have you ever seen hungry hamsters happily hauling a huge ham? In Angry Aardvark to Zealous Zebra young children are able to learn the alphabet with a fun twist. Each letter is accompanied by an illustration that prompts a child to imagine other words--made-up ones, too!--that begin with that same letter.

Genres: Picture Books

32 pages, Paperback

First published September 25, 2012

About the author

This bio is for the Horror/Fantasy author, Scott Thomas. There are also several other writers with this name.

Scott Thomas is an author of ghostly stories, often set in the 18th and 19th centuries in New England and Britain.

He is also the author of the fantasy novel FELLENGREY. His books include the collections URN AND WILLOW, QUILL & CANDLE, MIDNIGHT IN NEW ENGLAND, THE GARDEN OF GHOSTS, OVER THE DARKENING FIELDS, WESTERMEAD, SHADOWS OF FLESH, COBWEBS AND WHISPERS and two books co-written by brother Jeffrey Thomas, THE SEA OF FLESH AND ASH and PUNKTOWN: SHADES OF GREY.

Two of Scott Thomas' stories were reprinted in "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #15" (St. Martin's Press) and another story was reprinted in "The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII" (DAW Books). Scott lives in New England.

Reviews

[Miss Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

An abc borard book where each letter of the alphabet is represented with a cute line all involving that letter. toddler and up

[The Reading Writing Puppet · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute abc book but some words are hard to say for a small child.

[Andréa · Rating 2 out of 5]

The illustrations are a bit strange and not to my taste overall, but the rhinoceros illustration was particularly unattractive. The text includes many long and more complex words that seem beyond the vocabulary of the board book crowd; at the very least, the text certainly isn't "simple" as the back-of-the-book description states. Finally, I found the capitalization scheme frustrating: it doesn't follow normal sentence capitalization, nor is every instance of the featured letter on a given page capitalized. From the book's description, it seems this was intentional, to showcase both the large and small versions of each letter. In that instance, though, I would have preferred if the number of large and small featured letters on each page were evenly matched, or at least if the large and small letters were used consistently (such as small letters for adjectives and adverbs, large letters for nouns).