An alphabet adventure
One day i chanced to stop for t
and listen to sweet Mellow D,
in her old H beside the sea,
sing of her long-lost Mister E.
She said he'd hid a treasure chest
out on an I-land to the west.
Just where it's buried she knew not.
But X would surely mark the spot.
Come join the letter men of the Alphaboat as they cross the high seas on a treasure-hunting trip! All twenty-six characters are here, from uppercase officers Captain C and Admiral T to lowercase crewmen silent e and sleepy z.
Packed with visual and verbal puns, this jaunty picture book salutes nautical yarns of yore as it takes readers where no alphabet book has sailed before.
A Junior Library Guild Selection
Michael Chesworth has illustrated many picture books and is also the creator of Rainy Day Dream and Archibald Frisby, a Reading Rainbow Feature Book. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
"A delightful sail on the sea of language lunacy. Full of shameless wordplay and outrageous puns (the best kind). It's insidious, contagious, and funny. Just what a children's book should be." --Norton Juster
