Title: A Pacific Alphabet
Author: Margriet Ruurs
Illustrator: Dianna Bonder
Publish Date: June 4, 2004
Publisher: Walrus Books
Pages: 32
ISBN: 1416968024
Classification: Fiction
Genre: Alphabet Books, Picture Books
Annotation: Every page in A Pacific Alphabet has a painting and a letter and corresponds to a rhyme as it travels through the west coast from Alaska to Mexico.
Evaluation: Though this book sounds dry, but it really is created for young readers! Each of the 26 letters of the alphabet has a cute and whimiscal rhymes to support it. This book travels on our West Coast from Alaska to Mexico. Furthermore the developmentally appropriate picture book hides letters to find so children will love searching for them! Some of the things work best if parents and educators scaffold with them helping them identify the larger words and objects. But the fact that there are higher levels of exploration show that it can be a book you can grow into as well as fun for parents!! Dianna Bonder creates amazing illustrations! I love that it creates a sense of place through the entire West Coast (although the its pretty obvious the authors are pacific northwest natives).
