ABC Love: An endearing twist on learning your ABCs!

by Christiane Engel

Overview

ABC for Me: ABC Love is here to help you teach young children important concepts like love, acceptance, and affection while also teaching them the alphabet.

It's never too early to start teaching your baby the importance of love.  ABC for Me:  ABC Love pairs each letter of the alphabet with a specific word that teaches toddlers  important concepts like love, acceptance, affection, values, and warmth. This is a fun family read with playful, rhyming text. Best of all,  ABC for Me:  ABC Love makes learning the alphabet an interactive experience you can share with your little one. Perfect for preschool-age children and older.

ABC for Me: ABC Love is filled with  engaging illustrations and easy-to-understand text which promotes togetherness between kids and their family, and encourages them to act out each "love list" item, including everything from "embrace" for the letter e and "laugh" for l, to "trust" for t.

With endearing illustrations and mindful concepts, the ABC for Me series pairs each letter of the alphabet with words that promote big dreams and healthy living.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781633222403
Publisher:	Walter Foster Jr
Publication date:	01/01/2017
Series:	ABC for Me Series
Pages:	36
Sales rank:	619,689
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	AD490L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Christiane Engel is an award-winning illustrator and author. Her work can be found in a huge variety of kids' books all over the world, including a kids' bible and a children's atlas as well as Walter Foster Jr.'s ABC Love and ABC Yoga. Her instantly recognizable children's characters appeared in an award-winning ad campaign in the UK and she works with the Surrey County Council to create advertising and educational material for families. She has also created illustrations for animated programs for clients including the BBC. Christiane lives by the sea in southeast England with her little family. Learn more at chengel.myportfolio.com.

Editorial Reviews

2017-04-17
Children and their grown-ups explore the ABCs of love. The letters of the alphabet make the springboard for this alphabetized list of vignettes illustrating the love of family, friends, and more. Some are obvious choices, as in W: "Love is to welcome." The corresponding illustration shows two youngsters, one white and one black, welcoming an olive-skinned girl using a wheelchair to their classroom. Others are a bit of a stretch, as in O: "Love is original." This is paired with a pale-brown tot painting on a large piece of paper taped to the wall. While the text begins by using rhymed couplets, this scheme falters, and rhythmic verse is not even attempted in many double-page spreads. What stands out is Engels' jewel-toned art, featuring exuberant kids and adults with a diverse range of skin tones, many of them existing within the same family. The project is sandwiched between two pages of needless introduction and conclusion, attempting to sum up all the emotions packed into the pages. The final four pages unnecessarily review the alphabet and the words highlighted on each page as a line of expressive kids hold hands across the spreads. An emotional mess. Here's hoping Engel finds a text worthy of her playful art. (Board book. 18 mos.-4)

Kirkus Reviews