Alpha Beta Chowder

by Jeanne Steig

Book Overview

Presents an alliterative humorous verse for each letter of the alphabet, including The Enigmatic Egg, Mishmash, and Worrywart.. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062050060
• ISBN13: 9780062050069
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 45 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.8" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A Classic of the Genre

This is the book I read, over and over, at the demand of my language-infatuated seven-year-old. He may not have understood half the words, but he delighted in their sounds. When he tired of the book I put it on my bedside bookstand, and I still pull it out when I'm in the mood for some inspired, sophisticated nonsense. The best ABC book ever.

Deliciously perverse

Although I bought my eight-year-old girl the book for Christmas, it's headed to my office. It is the funniest book I've read in a long time; my usual reading (teaching) matter is the classics. The Steigs' book is a welcome break, a breath of fresh air after all that high-mindedness and tragedy! Carrotina and her awful cadenza are hilarious, but Naomi, "nervy as a newt" with her "nitwit" parents, is all too recognizable. I appreciate the tiny moral tales and the deflating of pompous academics, as in the "exegesis of the sphinx".