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Alphaprints
Alphaprints: ABC
A new take on an ABC book, Alphaprints: ABC is a charming and creative book which will delight children and parents alike. All of the letters of the alphabet are illustrated using colored finger and thumb prints, turned into animals with the addition of simple illustration. The pictures are described using imaginative, rhythmic text which is fun to read and to listen to. A clever and engaging way to teach babies and toddlers their ABCs.
26 pages, Board book
First published September 1, 2013
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Roger Priddy
2,515 books84 followersRoger Priddy (b. 1960) is the creator of Priddy Books, which publishes books for babies and young children. Priddy Books is a division of Macmillan Publishers and books published by the imprint have won several Practical Pre-School Awards.
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February 8, 2022
My big brother read me this book for tummy time
August 23, 2022
Creative! Pretty fun. Lost two stars for "Giraffe" being the "G" sound and "Unicorn" being the "U" sound which are the more uncommon uses/ones we're focusing on learning second.
February 4, 2017
(KidLit ED204 category: baby/toddler)
This book is such a joy! Each letter is a different animal, but what makes is especially fun is that the illustration of the animal is made using fingerprints! The fingerprints also has a texture to them (raised on the page) would add another layer of enjoyment for a baby or toddler who is enjoying this book!
Besides just what letter each animal goes with, there is a rhyme pattern to the book, with the information given about each animal.
This book is sure to delight any young child and is an amazingly fun twist to the "a is for..." type books!
This book is such a joy! Each letter is a different animal, but what makes is especially fun is that the illustration of the animal is made using fingerprints! The fingerprints also has a texture to them (raised on the page) would add another layer of enjoyment for a baby or toddler who is enjoying this book!
Besides just what letter each animal goes with, there is a rhyme pattern to the book, with the information given about each animal.
This book is sure to delight any young child and is an amazingly fun twist to the "a is for..." type books!
May 19, 2016
Love this one !
My grandaughters LOVE this one !
We have and readAlphaprints 123, and Alphaprints Colors . Its Alphaprints ABC they pick first and always.
11 month old future book lovers in the making.
My grandaughters LOVE this one !
We have and readAlphaprints 123, and Alphaprints Colors . Its Alphaprints ABC they pick first and always.
11 month old future book lovers in the making.
November 23, 2017
Appropriate grade level: PreK-K
Summary- Each page is about one letter of the alphabet. Each letter of the alphabet corresponds to one animal, followed by a short sentence. For example "K is for Koala from a country down under" and on that page is an illustration of a Koala. This book art uses fingerprints to create the animals.
Review- I really like how creative the fingerprints are to make animals. This is something I think kids will get a kick out of. This can be used in the classroom for students seeking out the 'hidden' fingerprints in the illustrations while learning the alphabet and animals.
2 Possible in-class uses:
1. Have students in the classroom make fingerprint art of their own. Have them stamp their fingerprints on a white piece of paper, that they can use as a base to draw their animal or creature of choice. It's possible to make a classroom alphabet book out of their fingerprints. I think young children will love seeing their own fingerprints in the storybook.
2. Along with the idea of a classroom book the teacher could also do handprints and write their first letter of their name for example " A is for Amy" and have her fingerprint on that page. This is another way to incorporate the classroom book.
Summary- Each page is about one letter of the alphabet. Each letter of the alphabet corresponds to one animal, followed by a short sentence. For example "K is for Koala from a country down under" and on that page is an illustration of a Koala. This book art uses fingerprints to create the animals.
Review- I really like how creative the fingerprints are to make animals. This is something I think kids will get a kick out of. This can be used in the classroom for students seeking out the 'hidden' fingerprints in the illustrations while learning the alphabet and animals.
2 Possible in-class uses:
1. Have students in the classroom make fingerprint art of their own. Have them stamp their fingerprints on a white piece of paper, that they can use as a base to draw their animal or creature of choice. It's possible to make a classroom alphabet book out of their fingerprints. I think young children will love seeing their own fingerprints in the storybook.
2. Along with the idea of a classroom book the teacher could also do handprints and write their first letter of their name for example " A is for Amy" and have her fingerprint on that page. This is another way to incorporate the classroom book.
August 24, 2017
Joe LOVES these books! We've now read both Alphaprints Dinosaurs and Alphaprints ABC. There are so many "layers" to these board books. Each page features a picture of an animal (dinosaur, in the Dinosaurs one) that is mostly composed of a giant fingerprint. This fingerprint is raised! And colored. Joe loves just flipping through the book feeling all the fingerprints. Then additional details are added to the circle/oval to make the dinosaur/animal. For example, the "J" page is "J is for Jellyfish, who floats through the sea." The jellyfish is illustrated by using a fingerprint for the jellyfish head/body, and photos of sour gummy worms for the wiggly legs! What fun! And as you see from my quote, the whole book has a cadence and a rhyme. So to recap: tactile pictures that teach a variety of colors; extra details that are identifiable everyday items (the walrus' tusks are bananas!); teaches the alphabet; has rhyme & cadence. Win, win, win!!!
August 19, 2017
This book is a creative delight in the animal art for each letter and the two-page rhymes that keep it moving for the youngster. The fingerprints for the base of each animal are textured and everyday objects are added to it to create the animal. Parents will find it humorous. As child ages the items on the pages could be "uncovered" and discussed. My child under age one already enjoys it and smiles at several of the animals.
April 11, 2025
Very fun to read around. There’s fun texture in the pictures with the fingerprints, and I love that each animal is also comprised of real-world images. For example, the the toucan has a banana for a beak. My one nitpicky complaint is the number of syllables between each 2-page spread is not the same (see Queen Bee v. Rhino). But that’s a very minor issue, though it does slightly detract from my reading-aloud experience.
August 24, 2023
I like that this series of board books can be interacted with in multiple ways by different ages. The large sturdy pages with textured fingerprint illustrations are great for a baby to explore. A preschooler can begin to grasp the concepts being taught. And an older child could enjoy trying to recreate their own thumbprint creatures in this style.
January 24, 2022
I thought the illustrations were trying a little too hard to be artistic, but Heather liked this one a lot. She's been very interested in the alphabet lately, so this is one of many ABC books we will likely read over the next few months.
- Heather's mom, 1/23/2022
- Heather's mom, 1/23/2022
January 25, 2018
Miss Two has several of these alphaprint books and can recognise many of the animals. The illistrations are pretty fun.
February 4, 2019
This book is nice, but our copy is missing letters 'Q' and 'R'. I'm not sure if all of the copies are missing these letters or just mine.
February 6, 2019
My toddler loves the textured pages
June 19, 2019
The 5-year-old is a huge fan...he just wants to stare at the pictures and figure out what they are made of...this works for a wide age range for sure.
July 15, 2020
I just love these Alphaprints books. They're delightfully kooky and have so many layers to unpick and explore.
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May 15, 2021I love the illustrations and the textures. Such a fun and well-made book. Granddaughter will love it for years to come.
July 27, 2021
Cute book that my daughter likes me to read to her. Wish they had not used 'unicorn' for the letter 'u'. There are real animals with that letter!
February 8, 2022
Favorite from library, says each one is hilarious
August 13, 2023
This book is very creative! There are different animals on each page too go with the alphabet letters, and each one is made of a finger print and other things like gummy worms or leaves.
August 21, 2023
This is a fun book that is helping me learn to count
May 23, 2024
Such a cute ABC book. Each animal is made from a fingerprint along with everyday items.
March 12, 2017
1) No awards
2) Ages 1-3
3) Alphaprints is a children's book that is useful for young readers to learn the alphabet. Each page consists of a letter in a fingerprint texture. The book also involves ryhming words that may capture the young readers attention.
4) This is a great book for children to learn the alphabet with. Children will love feeling the different texture on each page. It can be helpful for children to trace the letters with their fingers when it is time to learn how to write.
5) This book can be great for young students to learn the alphabet. It can also be a great way to teach children how to write letters by tracing each letter with their finger.
2) Ages 1-3
3) Alphaprints is a children's book that is useful for young readers to learn the alphabet. Each page consists of a letter in a fingerprint texture. The book also involves ryhming words that may capture the young readers attention.
4) This is a great book for children to learn the alphabet with. Children will love feeling the different texture on each page. It can be helpful for children to trace the letters with their fingers when it is time to learn how to write.
5) This book can be great for young students to learn the alphabet. It can also be a great way to teach children how to write letters by tracing each letter with their finger.
December 8, 2013
ABC books are hard, complicated beasts. It's about pitch, I think, and it's a vicious hard thing to get right is this concept of pitch. Children will form and shape their letters at different ages, in different ways, and have different ideas of what these odd marks are. Letter learning is a complicated, complex and immense beast.
But I love this. This ABC from Priddy Books is gorgeous and it's gorgeous for one very key reason. Each page is constructed in the fairly traditional format of 'C is for Cat' etc, but it's the images that make me so very happy. They're all centred around thumb prints. So, for example, in 'D is for Dinosaur' we have a big green thumb print dinosaur with thumb print ridges and a tail, head and legs added on in thick bold marker.
Centring this book around the concept of thumb prints is beautiful. The difficulty with a lot of books like this is that sometimes the language and concepts are vastly removed from real life and there's no way to bridge that gap from book through to real life. There's a moment in pre/emergent literacy where readers shift from realising that images in a book are very much that - images. Constructs.
And I suspect that the thumb prints will help hugely with that. I can't imagine of anything more joyous than making a big old thumb print, hand print, foot print ABC because it's telling you that you can make these shapes, that you can create those shapes, and that language has a physical, vibrant connection to you. I saw a documentary once about a teacher who taught punctuation judo. He lifted the punctuation off the page and got his students to chop and punch the air in the shapes of semi-colons. That living - that physical interaction with language - is brilliant. Use this book as a catalyst for play. Run your fingers over the ridges of the prints. It's made of such meaty paper too that I'm tempted to recreate the images on each page with my own painty thumbprint (though I haven't tested this!). But you don't have to stay in the book with prompts like: "R is for Rhino: That Stomps on the Ground", there's pages that demand giddy, giggling play. Dip your hands in paint and make big, sprawling letters. Write with your fingers in mud or snow or in icing. Play with it.
It's a catalyst, this book, and it's beautifully put together. I really like it. And I also love how there's a sense of whimsy to a lot of the illustrations: the walrus with banana tusks, the squirrel with a feather duster tail and the jellyfish with squiggly pipecleaner tentacles. This is a really charming, fun book.
But I love this. This ABC from Priddy Books is gorgeous and it's gorgeous for one very key reason. Each page is constructed in the fairly traditional format of 'C is for Cat' etc, but it's the images that make me so very happy. They're all centred around thumb prints. So, for example, in 'D is for Dinosaur' we have a big green thumb print dinosaur with thumb print ridges and a tail, head and legs added on in thick bold marker.
Centring this book around the concept of thumb prints is beautiful. The difficulty with a lot of books like this is that sometimes the language and concepts are vastly removed from real life and there's no way to bridge that gap from book through to real life. There's a moment in pre/emergent literacy where readers shift from realising that images in a book are very much that - images. Constructs.
And I suspect that the thumb prints will help hugely with that. I can't imagine of anything more joyous than making a big old thumb print, hand print, foot print ABC because it's telling you that you can make these shapes, that you can create those shapes, and that language has a physical, vibrant connection to you. I saw a documentary once about a teacher who taught punctuation judo. He lifted the punctuation off the page and got his students to chop and punch the air in the shapes of semi-colons. That living - that physical interaction with language - is brilliant. Use this book as a catalyst for play. Run your fingers over the ridges of the prints. It's made of such meaty paper too that I'm tempted to recreate the images on each page with my own painty thumbprint (though I haven't tested this!). But you don't have to stay in the book with prompts like: "R is for Rhino: That Stomps on the Ground", there's pages that demand giddy, giggling play. Dip your hands in paint and make big, sprawling letters. Write with your fingers in mud or snow or in icing. Play with it.
It's a catalyst, this book, and it's beautifully put together. I really like it. And I also love how there's a sense of whimsy to a lot of the illustrations: the walrus with banana tusks, the squirrel with a feather duster tail and the jellyfish with squiggly pipecleaner tentacles. This is a really charming, fun book.
February 15, 2014
Powell, Sarah. Alphaprints. ABC (2013). In this beautifully illustrated ABC book, the author creatively weaves in letters of the alphabet while representing various animals that begin with that letter. The illustrations are not the usual fair and they are unique. At first glance, the animals are easily recognizable. And upon closer examination there are more to the drawings. The animals are made up of fingerprints. I especially like the squirrel, with a colorful duster for a tail and almonds for ears. This playfulness will appeal to toddlers. There is one large illustration, centered on the page; which allows for little eyes to focus. There is nothing to clutter the page. The illustrations are raised and therefore will appeal to a tactile learner – appropriate for very young children. There are two font sizes per page. One is larger, colorful which focuses on the letter and animal, while the other is located on the bottom of the page, in black and has a rhyming phrase about the animal. The book appeals to a wide age range in children – letters, rhyming and animals. Ages: 1 year – 4 years old.
December 16, 2013
Think Ed Emberley's Fingerprint Drawing book combined with Lois Ehlert's collage illustration method of found objects put into the structure of an alphabet book.
Such a satisfyingly great read. I loved that the fingerprints had a raised texture for readers to feel. The animals chosen to represent each of the letters are familiar and range from pets to zoo animals to fantastical creatures (i.e. unicorn).
This is a must read for babies and toddlers and would make a great gift book this season.
Such a satisfyingly great read. I loved that the fingerprints had a raised texture for readers to feel. The animals chosen to represent each of the letters are familiar and range from pets to zoo animals to fantastical creatures (i.e. unicorn).
This is a must read for babies and toddlers and would make a great gift book this season.
February 5, 2017
Ruthie's absolute favorite book.
March 11, 2015
A large oversized board books grabs your attention with a super size finger print cat on the front cover. Bright and bold, with textured pages, this is a book your want to pick up. The creator Jo Ryan uses photos and shpaes with thumb prints to create each animal,the yak's body is a coconut, the zebra's snout is a black button, too much to see and do with book, I love it!
March 2, 2014
Texture, great rhythm, fun fingerprints with different every-day identifiable objects to make up the illustrations, great letter-association. There is a lot going on in this book and kids can look at and do something different with it every time you read it.
September 25, 2013
Beautiful book! This one is worth buying.
December 6, 2013
This is a very creatively illustrated ABC book. This would make a nice baby shower gift or holiday gift for little ones learning their alphabet.
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