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    Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z
    Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z
    Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z
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    Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z

    By Lois Ehlert

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    A vibrant and sturdy word book starring fruits and vegetables from around the world from Caldecott Honor–winning author-illustrator Lois Ehlert. Features upper- and lowercase letters for preschoolers just learning language.

    Each turn of the page reveals a mouth-watering arrangement of foods: Indian corn, jalapeno, jicama, kumquat, kiwifruit and kohlrabi. Lois Ehlert's lively watercolors paired with bold easy-to-read type make for a highly appealing and accessible book for parents and children to devour.

    At the end of the book, Ehlert provides a detailed glossary that includes pronunciation, botanical information, the origin and history of the particular plant and occasional mythological references, with a small watercolor picture to remind the reader of what the plant looks like.

    Apple to Zucchini,

    come take a look.

    Start eating your way

    through this alphabet book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateDec 10, 2013
    ISBN9780547539096
    Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z
    Author

    Lois Ehlert

    Lois Ehlert was the author-illustrator of many picture books, including Caldecott Honor–winning Color Zoo, Leaf Man, Pie in the Sky, In My World, Growing Vegetable Soup, Planting a Rainbow, and the best-selling Waiting for Wings.

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    • 4/5
      This book will help children learn the alphabet by showing the alphabet letters (A-Z) in order and showing what foods start with those letters. This would be useful for students who are just starting to learn the alphabet or for those who need to solidify their alphabet.
    • 4/5
      this is a book that help children learn the alphabet by showing the alphabet letters in order and showing what fruits start with what letters. great to have in class when doing alphabet and activities.
    • 5/5
      This ABC book features many fruits and vegetables. For each letter, there are images of fruits and vegetables that begins with the letter. The words in the book are written in uppercase and lowercase letters. The book helps young children recognize the ABC's, uppercase and lowercase letters, and fruits and vegetables. The book is suited for children in pre-kindergarten or kindergarten.
    • 5/5
      I love this book and I have had it since my son was in elementary (he's now in high school). I have read it to my other three kids as well. Not only are children learning their ABC's, but they're also learning new vocabulary as well as classification of fruits and vegetables. I will keep this book for my grandkids.
    • 3/5
      This is a book that introduces the alphabet and fruits and vegetables. It goes from a to z and names different fruits and vegetables.
    • 3/5
      4starP. Preschoolers (individual). Very bright, colorful illustrations of fruits by first letter (p for potato, pomegranate and passion fruit). Very busy pages, so better for one on one reading, rather than in a group.
    • 3/5
      Loved the colorful illustrations.
    • 4/5
      This book is great for younger kids who are learning the alphabet. Each page has a letter from the alphabet on it including healthy fruits and vegetables that start with that letter.
    • 4/5
      Great book showing all of the fruits and vegetables. Great book for 1st grade or higher. Great pictures.
    • 4/5
      This is a great ABC book because emerging readers will be able to recognize food items and learn about some they may not know. It's also a great tool for teaching emerging writers about labels.
    • 2/5
      This is an interesting take on an alphabet book. I don't know if I would use it in my classroom but I would have it in my library. The book goes through the alphabet by using different fruits and vegetables that are unfamiliar to most people. The back of the book has a glossary which tells what the fruit is and where it is grown. The pictures are cute, but it isn't a book I would read in my class.
    • 4/5
      I think this book would be a good book to include in a K-3 library. It is useful for both boys and girls. At the Kindergarten level, I would use this book as a read-aloud and see if students can identify certain fruits and vegetables. As the students grow older, they can use it as a reference book. I could see my students liking this book because it is about food and all kids eat everyday. All students could relate to it because they may be able to identify the fruits and vegetables because they eat them.
    • 5/5
      This book is a great way to review ABCs as well as introduce children to fruits and vegetables that they may never have heard of. The back of the book includes a guide to the fruits and vegetables mentioned, where they are found, and more background information.
    • 5/5
      Lois Ehlert has a really unusual style of illustration that I find very appealing. In this book she has gathered a collection of fruits and vegetables, some familiar and some more unusual, to illustrate the alphabet. Older children will probably find this quite boring unless they are interested in the lovely artwork, although there is a glossary in the back explaining each food that could be of interest. The book really is more valuable for younger children who are learning the alphabet and can use the foods they are familiar with the make connections between letters and sounds.
    • 4/5
      This book had a lot of fruits and vegetables in it that I have never heard of before. This would be a great book to read during lunch time or right before. I like that this book has the origin of fruits and vegetables in the back. I also like that it has a list of how to sound out the words.
    • 3/5
      My first graders loved the board book. The illustrations are bright and eye - catching. Each letter of the alphabet is represented in large font in uppercase and lowercase, as are all the names of the fruits and vegetables. The illustrations are captioned with spellings of each fruits and vegetables as they appear at the supermarket. The book includes a glossary of fruits and vegetables, with small picture , pronounciation, and a brief description. Highley recommended.
    • 5/5
      A classic Lois Ehlert collage book that brings beautifully, boldly colored fruits and vegetables to life. Ehlert introduces young readers to nutritious foods and to the alphabet at the same time. This would be great in the very young classroom as a read aloud, and for independent readers to build confidence as well. It could be used in both learning the ABCs and in a unit on nutrition. Students could also be inspired with the help of a teacher to brainstorm other fruits and vegetables, or other foods in general, that begin with each letter of the alphabet. They could also make Ehlert-style collage pictures representing their favorite fruit or vegetable, or the one that represents the first letter of their name.
    • 5/5
      5PFor toddlers, preschool children, and older children (up to first grade).
    • 3/5
      This is an ABC book that features many fruits and vegetables. For each letter, there are images of fruits and vegetables that begins with that letter. This is a bright and colorful book that not only teaches the alphabet but helps with teaching kids to eat their fruits and vegetables.
    • 5/5
      This book is a wonderful way for students to make connections between letters of the alphabet and foods when learning the alphabet. This will allow for the student to develop the skills needed to notice concrete words with concrete items. Can be very helpful for beginning or struggling readers.
    • 5/5
      This would be a great book to read during pre-k/k when they are learning the alphabet. Also if you are teaching about fruits and vegetables. The book goes through the alphabet and lists the fruits and vegetables that start with every letter.
    • 5/5
      Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z is a great addition to have in any classroom library. Each fruit and vegetable is colorfully illustrated,and labled with upper & lower case letters. The book is great for introducing and teaching young children of different kinds of healthy treat from A - apricots to- Z zucchinis, that can be grown and prouduced all over the world. The book includes a glossary in the back of the book that gives a brief information of each food item as well as how to pronounce it's name. Great for young children ages 3 to 6 years old, can be used to learn about health eating, the differences between fruits and veggies, can have children make their own friuts and veggie ABC book, can have a taste testing in class, possble class garden. Book comes in oversize form.
    • 5/5
      This is a great book to use with your younger students especially when teaching vegetables and fruits, but also when teaching numbers and letters. Ehlert not puts them in alphabetical order but also has a great glossary at the back that is very helpful when introducing some of the fruits that listed in the book that we are not that familiar too. Very colorful and bright book.
    • 4/5
      Maybe it's a little too long? Maybe the text (like many books of this genre, it just lists the words, nothing else) isn't captivating enough? Perhaps it's the illustrations? I just don't know.I do like that there's a guide in the back explaining the history of every bit of produce listed in this book (this book only mentions plant foods, so it's great for veg*ns), with a pronunciation guide.Just wish the girls liked it as much as I do. I knocked off a star for that.
    • 4/5
      Fun book that teaches about heathly eating and alphabets
    • 4/5
      A lovely learning to read book centered on fruits and vegetables. Each page has a letter (or two) written in capital and lower case along with one or more foods starting with that letter (also written in both capital and lower case) and beautiful cut paper collage pictures of the food.
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed this book tremendously!-How Elhert's unique style of cutting anpasting in herillustrations focus on the way that light hits the fruit or vegetable at different angles, because of this her art has a very realistic quality, that teaches about each fruit and vegetable because of the details she's managed to capture in this artistic technique. She's one of my favorite picture book authors and illustrators. I have learned about how to make this same effect in artwork in my work with children and they just absolutely loved it.
    • 3/5
      This book lists a several fruits and vegetables for each letter of the alphabet. Some of the items are a little esoteric in this part of the country but I feel like this could still be a fun book.
    • 3/5
      Beautifully illustrated, this book lists fruits and vegetables for every letter of the alphabet. A discussion could include identifying which foods are fruits and which foods are vegetables.
    • 5/5
      It's important for children to learn at a young age how important it is to eat there fruits and vegetables and it makes it more fun when the alphabet is invole. The book is filled with many bright and colorful pictures which brings the food to life. With the help of the alphabet it starts with A-Z naming off different fruits and vegetables by using the first letter it begins with. The appealing illustrations, easy-to-read print, examples of both upper- and lower-case letters, and the glossary in back with information on all the different fruits and veggies mentioned make it a great example of a quality alphabet book.The book really is more valuable for younger children who are learning the alphabet and can use the foods they are familiar with the make connections between letters and sounds.

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