R is for Rainbow: Developing Young Children's Thinking Skills Through the Alphabet

This seems like an eduacational coloring book. I got a good price on a used one so I considered worthwhile. It does offer lots of ideas too.

I teach 3 and 4 year olds in a preschool and I used this book for about 6 months before I decided I needed to own it. Mostly I use it at first during the year for ideas of how to introduce the kids to the letters and do simple activities. I read quite a bit to them as well and by the end of the school year they are able to do more complex activities from the book, which our pre-k teachers use as well. The activities are fun and educational, sometimes challenging, but you can also adapt them to the level you are working with. For example, in the A section there is an ambulance picture and you can just have the kids color or paint it, talk about it, find magazine pictures that could go with it (other vehicles, or doctors, nurses, sick people) or copy out a certain number and color them the colors of the rainbow ahead of time and then do a color recognition or matching activity. Or give each child an ambluance and have them cut little bits of paper and glue them onto the picture. OR do the activity that the book suggests: Copy out an ambulance for each child, write a large A on each and have children trace over it and cut strips of paper and glue them down over the A. I love that there are pictures to copy out (I'm a terrible artist) and there are suggestions and instructions for many things to do, many more ideas of how to incorporate each letter into activities all week than I usually have time for. I love it.