mjfmjfmjf's review against another edition
4.0
Caldecot Honor picture book. Simple but awesome alphabet book idea. Basically letters found on the street, but paintings not photographs. The letters are clear and obvious but still imaginative and the art itself is well executed. It makes you look and think.
missprint_'s review against another edition
3.0
Pretty sure I'd be feeling it more if I could figure out how to use it in a program. But, wow, great artwork.
calistareads's review against another edition
5.0
This is another alphabet book and I have to say that there have been many recently in the Caldecott list and I was dreading this. Yet, I really enjoyed reading this. It is slightly different than what we have seen previously.
Stephen did a fantastic job with this wordless beginning book. He painted these scenes of a city, but it looks like pictures of a city. He finds natural structures that create a letter of the alphabet naturally. It’s fun to see the pictures and instantly understand that it is also a letter. I love his ’T’, ‘E’, and ‘F’. Well ‘B’ was pretty cool too. I’m very impressed with this and it does change your perspective of the city we live in and what makes it up. It was so much fun.
The niece and nephew both got into this as they saw the letters and it blew their mind like it did mine. We play the ABC game in the car where you find words with the next letter of the alphabet. They want to see if we can play this game of finding the letter in a structure somehow. The niece had fun with this and she gave it 4 stars. The nephew thought this was amazing and he gave it 5 stars.
Stephen did a fantastic job with this wordless beginning book. He painted these scenes of a city, but it looks like pictures of a city. He finds natural structures that create a letter of the alphabet naturally. It’s fun to see the pictures and instantly understand that it is also a letter. I love his ’T’, ‘E’, and ‘F’. Well ‘B’ was pretty cool too. I’m very impressed with this and it does change your perspective of the city we live in and what makes it up. It was so much fun.
The niece and nephew both got into this as they saw the letters and it blew their mind like it did mine. We play the ABC game in the car where you find words with the next letter of the alphabet. They want to see if we can play this game of finding the letter in a structure somehow. The niece had fun with this and she gave it 4 stars. The nephew thought this was amazing and he gave it 5 stars.
jmanchester0's review against another edition
4.0
Almost more of a cool coffee table art book than a children's picture book. But it is fun to go thru with your kids and try to see the letters.
diadaily's review against another edition
4.0
For a moment, I thought I was looking at photographs instead of illustrations. The art style is so beautiful and realistic! I'd love to show this to preschoolers, if not to teach them the alphabet, then to expose them to some great art. As far as teaching the concept of the alphabet, I think this book handles that in a really interesting and unique way. It'd be fun to sit with a child and find the letters together, in order. Additionally, this book is a cool way to expose kids to an urban environment if they didn't grow up in the city or get them to look at their own city in a new way.
middle_name_joy's review against another edition
4.0
Image recognition is so important for toddlers and especially preschoolers. As they learn the sounds each letter can make, they should also be learning how letters are represented. Alphabet City creates a hide-and-seek game. Where is the A? The F? They are hidden in beautiful photographs of New York City. It's a wonderful way to challenge and play with young children to expand their letter recognition and develop their spatial reasoning.
raoionna's review against another edition
5.0
Luscious photographs of common objects (like a stoplight) turn the world around us into an alphabet.
brionnemoore's review against another edition
5.0
Review - Prince age 5 -
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Hey! I sang the ABCs!
It’s a city boom that puts abc’s. How is it an ABC world?
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Hey! I sang the ABCs!
It’s a city boom that puts abc’s. How is it an ABC world?