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Alphabad: Mischievious ABCs
A is no longer for apple-A is for atrocious! An astronaut attacking an alien with avocados is atrocious! Author Shannon Stewart presents a hilariously wicked take on the average alphabet book. Created with the imaginations of both children and parents in mind, Alphabad teaches the ABCs through alliteration-of bad behavior! Delightfully crafted to teach both letters and their elemental sounds, Stewart's rollicking text is accompanied throughout by Dusan Petricic's playful illustrations. This is an alphabet book to be treasured by the wicked child in each of us!
32 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2005
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May 1, 2018
For Ages: 3-7
Summary: A book that brings new words to the letters of the alphabet, expanding children's vocabulary.
Review: A funny book that introduces children to a more expansive vocabulary while having a fun time and laughing.
Classroom Uses: It could be used to introduce children to new vocabulary and have them pick a few words that they want to learn and have them write it and research the word and find out more information to help broaden their language and knowledge.
Summary: A book that brings new words to the letters of the alphabet, expanding children's vocabulary.
Review: A funny book that introduces children to a more expansive vocabulary while having a fun time and laughing.
Classroom Uses: It could be used to introduce children to new vocabulary and have them pick a few words that they want to learn and have them write it and research the word and find out more information to help broaden their language and knowledge.
December 5, 2009
Awesome alphabet book. Here's a review in the Globe and Mail that says it all.
Alphabad, by Shannon Stewart, illustrated by Dusan Petricic, Key Porter, 32 pages, $19.95, ages 4 to 7
This is the abecedarium for those who have already mastered that other ABC, the innocuous one whose alphabetic surrogates are Apples, Boats and Cats. This one, done up in shades of grey, black and the green of envy, belongs to those with a yen for something riskier, darker, a little perverse; those who, early on, may have drunk the milk of paradise, but now know, intuitively or otherwise, that curdled milk is a possibility.
In Alphabad, X "is for extra bad. Exploding xylophone experiments can be extra bad," and illustrator Dusan Petricic's small hero's manic eyes and flailing arms leave no doubt that total destruction of the aforementioned xylophone is the purpose of the experiment. Here, S "is for spying. Spying on sister's special secrets is a sly and splendid sport."
Q "is for quarrel. A quartet of quarrelling kids should be quarantined." B "is for boobytrap. Beastly brats set boobytraps for their babysitters." Poor babysitter, midstride, discovers her shoe has been glued to the floor. We can't see her face, but we can see the wide-eyed miscreant's.
Dark side aside, Alphabad offers junior citizens of the world the pleasure of words — some perhaps not encountered before — and of hyperbole, and there's an amplitude of alliteration. In short, it's a good bit of badness.
Alphabad, by Shannon Stewart, illustrated by Dusan Petricic, Key Porter, 32 pages, $19.95, ages 4 to 7
This is the abecedarium for those who have already mastered that other ABC, the innocuous one whose alphabetic surrogates are Apples, Boats and Cats. This one, done up in shades of grey, black and the green of envy, belongs to those with a yen for something riskier, darker, a little perverse; those who, early on, may have drunk the milk of paradise, but now know, intuitively or otherwise, that curdled milk is a possibility.
In Alphabad, X "is for extra bad. Exploding xylophone experiments can be extra bad," and illustrator Dusan Petricic's small hero's manic eyes and flailing arms leave no doubt that total destruction of the aforementioned xylophone is the purpose of the experiment. Here, S "is for spying. Spying on sister's special secrets is a sly and splendid sport."
Q "is for quarrel. A quartet of quarrelling kids should be quarantined." B "is for boobytrap. Beastly brats set boobytraps for their babysitters." Poor babysitter, midstride, discovers her shoe has been glued to the floor. We can't see her face, but we can see the wide-eyed miscreant's.
Dark side aside, Alphabad offers junior citizens of the world the pleasure of words — some perhaps not encountered before — and of hyperbole, and there's an amplitude of alliteration. In short, it's a good bit of badness.
July 16, 2009
I enjoy alphabet books with a difference, and have been searching for an ideal alphabet book - as in the not-too-distant-future I'm sure I'm going to be reading and re-reading them alot!
This book has a similar idea as The Dangerous Alphabet - but instead of dangerous it is mischievous. Neither have completely hit the mark for me.
Like most alphabet books it stretches to find words that start with the right letter:
"An astronaut attacking aliens with avocados is atrocious" - really? I would think that it is misguided but is it really 'shockingly cruel and inhumane'?
Similarly:
"Hiding behind hedges is a horrible habit." - regularly hiding behind hedges 'provokes intense and profound fear'?
Dusan Petricic's illustrations do a valliant job at illustrating what is a pretty silly text.
This book has a similar idea as The Dangerous Alphabet - but instead of dangerous it is mischievous. Neither have completely hit the mark for me.
Like most alphabet books it stretches to find words that start with the right letter:
"An astronaut attacking aliens with avocados is atrocious" - really? I would think that it is misguided but is it really 'shockingly cruel and inhumane'?
Similarly:
"Hiding behind hedges is a horrible habit." - regularly hiding behind hedges 'provokes intense and profound fear'?
Dusan Petricic's illustrations do a valliant job at illustrating what is a pretty silly text.
August 24, 2009
Eh. Silly, but not great.
June 13, 2016
An A to Z look at a horde of children I never want to meet!
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