Vehicles ABC

Jannie Ho' ABCs

by Jannie Ho

Vehicles ABC is the fourth in this series of fun first alphabet books for babies and toddlers. As well as first letter sounds to say out loud, there are bright pictures featuring lots of familiar vehicles to spot and talk about, providing hours of first-word fun!

Genres: Picture Books, Transport, Childrens, Trucks

28 pages, Board book

Published July 5, 2018

Reviews

[Cara · Rating 2 out of 5]

With its large, colorful digital images and vehicle theme, this board book will appeal to most toddlers, but the content is problematic. Offering no prelude or conclusion, the book simply features one letter and vehicle per page. The upper- and lowercase letters along with the words for the vehicles contribute to print awareness, but the font and sometimes the color choices for the letters are unfortunate. The font should be clear and easy to discern for children who are just becoming familiar with letters; instead, this font is ‘playful’ and sometimes doesn’t contrast well with the background color. Some of the vehicle choices are also questionable; though this book might be trying to stand out from the crowd, most toddlers would prefer “garbage truck” to “galleon”. Children ages 0-3 will enjoy looking at the vehicles, but this book isn’t a good tool for teaching the alphabet, making it an optional purchase.

[Becky · Rating 3 out of 5]

First sentence: Aa ambulance
Bb bulldozer
Cc carriage
Dd digger
Ee electric car
Ff fire engine
Gg galleon

Premise/plot: A vehicle/transportation themed alphabet concept books for little ones. The illustrations may not be super-realistic, but overall it's not bad.

My thoughts: I like this one. As with all alphabet books there are some odd choices that are made with harder letters, but what are you going to do? That's the nature of alphabet books.

[Kelly]

Very cute and used the alphabet well. Nice and simple for a board book with just Aa and an illustration on each page. Would buy more of these.

[Pinky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Learn the modes of transportation from Paddleboat to Rocket ship.

[Angela De Groot · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vibrant colors make this a fun way to learn ABCs and about all the different vehicles. P for paddle boat and G for galleon were 2 of my favorites.

[Teresa · Rating 5 out of 5]

although some may not be the best for letter sounds (Ice cream truck) a varied and fun, bright exercise in vehicle love.

[CLesp · Rating 4 out of 5]

Zeppelin and galleon..happy to introduce new words to my little

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exquisite. What a relief that there are vehicles for every letter. I didn't believe and then I did.

[Allison · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the pictures and the simplicity, but a few of the choices for ‘vehicles’ were a bit of a stretch for me for a board book. Especially as I’m trying to teach my toddler language and words for things he sees day-to-day.

For instance, he’s not going to see a ‘carriage’ anytime soon so I wish they had used ‘car’ for the letter ‘C’. Or, ‘galleon’? What about a ‘golf cart’? He may actually see one of those and then he can make language connections.

[sarah young · Rating 3 out of 5]

Odd vehicle choices for some letters. A young or older toddler struggle to enjoy because of those oddities. Seriously, a galleon? Queen Mary? I’m all for expanding ones knowledge but this is a bit much.