ABC: A Child's First Alphabet Book

I love reading this book to my 7 month old. The illustrations are gorgeous for adults to enjoy and whimsical and fun for children to gaze at. Every time we read it, I find something new I hadn't seen before -- it's such an inventive book with a lovely little "storyline" and connections between pages. We'll never get bored with it!

Both my kids (3 yr old boy and 18 mos girl) love this book. The pictures have are gorgeous and whimsical. There are so many hidden words with the accompanying letter that the kids never get tired of looking for new words. Great book to give as a gift as well.

This is one of the BEST children's books my family owns -- I plan to buy additional copies to give as gifts to my friends for their children! This book has beautiful, magical, colorful, captivating illustrations and is so cleverly done! My oldest son is 26 months and just loves looking through the book! I enjoy reading and looking through this book as much as he does! You won't be disappointed!

I wasn't especially impressed when I first saw this book. A is for apple, B is for balloon, C is for cow, basic stuff. The only thing interesting was "X marks the spot" instead of "X is for X-ray or Xylophone". Then I realized that I'd seen many of the creatures in Z is for zoo earlier in the book. So I re-read it. Several re-reads later, I realized that there was a tentative story in this book. Do the women and the man love each other? They write letters. Hearts are a periodic motif. The woman paints, the man explores. Do they miss each other? So maybe a toddler won't understand that. But this is an alphabet book they'll read past toddlerhood.

This is a wonderful book for babies up to preschool. The pictures are simple at first, but the harder you look the more you see. My two year old enjoys shouting out everything she sees in the pictures. It is fun for us as parents to read as well. We try to find everything with that letter. It is kind of like a Where's Waldo for little ones.