A, My Name Is Alice (Picture Puffin Books)

A, My Name Is Alice (Picture Puffin Books)

A variety of animals parade by in this familiar jumprope alphabet song. The antics never quite quit as a parade of animals sell their wares in this wildly illustrated version of the familiar alphabet ditty and ball-bouncing game. Young readers will delight in meeting such characters as Barbara, the bear with balloons for sale in Brazil; New York Ned, the newt who owns a noodle emporium, and finally the zipper-selling Zambian zebra and zebu, Zelda and Zach. "Silly husband-and-wife teams and their parade of possessions star in a rollicking alphabet book."-- Publishers Weekly The antics never quit as a parade of animals sell their wares in this wildly illustrated version of the familiar alphabet ditty and ball-bouncing game. Jane Bayer was inspired to write this book by a playground game that she played as a child growing up, and realized that it would be a fun and familiar way to introduce readers to new words and animals. Steven Kellogg has illustrated many picture books, most notably the Pinkerton series and The Island of the Skog . He lives in Norwalk, Connecticut.