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Ant and Bee and Kind Dog
Angela Banner

Egmont
2014 / ISBN 9781405270755
Children / Nonfiction / ABCs

Reviewed by Bob Walch

 

Parents of beginning readers will discover that this little book offers not only more text than you often find in books of this nature, but the repetition that helps the child also master the narrative is highlighted in red. The idea is that an adult or older child reads the text printed in black ink and the beginning reader chimes in when the red words appear.

Dubbed “an alphabetical story”, you’ll see that the key words also take you through the alphabet. So you’ll begin with “air”, “bell” and “camel” and continue on until you get to “water”, “X-road”, “yo-yo” and “zoo”.

Frankly, the story may seem a bit odd because the author works so hard to get the key words into the narrative. Probably a young reader won’t mind the problem with a somewhat nonsensical narrative because children love silly stories anyhow. Mom and dad will just have to set their higher standards for a “meaningful” storyline aside and go with the flow!

Reviewed 2015
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