Living Alphabet

I loved this book. It's beautiful. So refreshing for children to see the alphabet presented with such life and beauty. My 3 year old wanted to learn the alphabet. Although Waldorf education, which we integrate into our lives, doesn't recommend learning it this early, I knew I had to start him somewhere...lest he begin to use the free alphabet cards he found in a magazine that came to us in the mail ("free" cards which featured a minivan add on the other side)!! I digress....the one downer for this book...the letter *I* features a Native American as an "Indian", and it's the primary focus of the page. There are also Inuits on this page. Why couldn't they be the focus?? My son is confused about people from India and Native Americans ("Indians") anyhow. And to top it off...this is also, in my opinion, the only truly UGLY illustration in the whole book. The "Indian" is sulking, standing stiff as a board....Please, if this page could be fixed, I think it's a near perfect book. It is worth buying, if you can overlook the "Indian"....and your children will learn from it (and you may too).

The most inspiring alphabet book. Waldorf style learning method. Could be an example for classroom teaching, or home schooling, or simply complement what the child is seeing in school.

We used this book as a fun time for our family. We look at the pictures and told stories or just pointed different images (which was fun for my 18 months old) we made the sounds each picture start with, before the end of the month my five years old daughter learned (not memorised) her alphabet. More important she can tell stories about each letter to her baby sister and we still use the book as a family story book. I would highly recomend it.