Where Is Everybody?: An Animal Alphabet - Softcover

PreSchool-K-- An affable production, with likely child appeal but little to distinguish it from others of its ilk. A most myopic mole goes stalking his friends, with camera cocked, but Where Is Everybody? Well, "Alligator is in the attic," "Bear is in the bakery," "Cat is at the computer," and . . . you get the idea. Full-page watercolors, in muddy tones set off by brilliant yellow, show each costumed character surrounded by an assortment of alphabetically appropriate objects, setting up a fine game for inquisitive pre-readers. And even younger children can hunt for Mole (or evidence thereof) on each letter page. Anne Rockwell's Albert B. Cub and Zebra (Crowell, 1987) is a more stylish and fully realized example of the seek-and-find alphabet (objects are identified in an appendix); Graeme Base's Animalia (Abrams, 1987) and Satoshi Kitamura's What's Inside (Farrar, 1985) are noteworthy variations on the theme. --Marcia Hupp, Mamaroneck Public Library, N.Y.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Droll illustrations of anthropomorphized critters accompany such alliterative alphabetical antics as "Elephant is on the escalator." Ages 3-6.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.