The Alphabet Thief
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
When night falls, along comes a peculiar thief who steals each letter of the alphabet, creating a topsy-turvy world as she goes.
The alphabet thief stole all of the B’s, and all of the bowls became owls…
It seems that no one can stop her, until the Z’s finally send her to sleep so that all the other letters can scamper back to where they belong.
Bill Richardson’s zany rhymes and Roxanna Bikadoroff’s hilarious illustrations will delight young readers with the silly fun they can have with language — and may even inspire budding young writers and artists to create their own word games.
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.4
Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Richardson and Bikadoroff reveal just how important letters are as the eponymous Alphabet Thief who looks one part witch, one part rogue musketeer goes on a crime spree, stealing one letter at a time. The result: madcap linguistic chaos, which Richardson describes with glee in rhymes that never take a false step: "The Alphabet Thief stole all of the I's./ The maid was made mad in a glance./ And artists at easels would rather have measles./ Than find that their paints were now pants." Bikadoroff's airy ink-and-watercolor portraits are just as much fun, and the book's small trim size and big sense of fun make it a smart pick for language lovers of any age. Ages 5 9.
