Greetings from Alphabet City!! Population: Me and you.
THREE PROS
*I love the organization of the whole thing -- 26 letters across 20 pages might seem like an unusual way of doing it, but it works to perfection
*Showing kids the uppercase and lowercase versions of each letter is smart and might have been forgotten by other authors
*With the exception of one letter (see below), the entire alphabet is covered with virtually equal weight
THREE CONS
*This book is obviously meant to be a teaching tool; so including four Seussian beasts bothers me to no end (thankfully, three of them are mixed with other real-life entities)
*Why on earth would the page for the letter 'Z' only contain the fictitious Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz
*Uncle Ubb's feet must have been in a horribly disfiguring accident or are possessed by a demon
ONE DAD'S OPINION
Let it be known, I had a pre-blog bias against Seuss. I never liked his books growing up, so his works face an uphill battle if they are to attain a better than average rating from me. As much as I try to approach each title with a clear and untainted mind, I'd be foolish to think that I can completely dismiss this notion. But this book does a good job of packing a lot of material into a small space. While it doesn't reach the top of the Kid Book Ratings mountain, it gets pretty close.
Buy / BORROW / Donate / Destroy
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