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Author: Susan Joyce ~ Illustrator: Doug DuBosqueISBN 0-939217-51-1 Rhyming riddles based on common objects challenge beginning readers to make connections between sounds and letters. With bright, colorful illustrations, this children's book helps encourage phonemic awareness, a key to reading success.This book also features a page at the end with "Ideas for Parents and Teachers." Ages 5-8. Just right for children who enjoy reading, spelling, or just plain guessing, these rhyming riddles offer clues to the sense and spelling (first and last letter) of each answer. Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a riddle. For the letter "Y" the riddle goes, "I start with a Y and end with an O. / Up, down, all around, / I go fast or slow. / a toy on a string / I'm a round, simple thing. / What in the world can I be? / Do you know?" Often large in scale and including only a part of the object named, the illustrations feature flat colors and bold graphic design. With its picture-book format and playful approach to learning, this well-designed riddle book will find its way into many primary-grade classrooms. -- Booklist Everything about "Alphabet Riddles" by Susan Joyce and Doug DuBosque is splendid! The text is extremely inviting to young readers and stimulates both language and concept learning. The 26 alphabet-based riddles provide children with delightful mysteries and puzzles to solve. The riddle-solving is so inviting and so much fun that the students will no doubt miss the point that they are simultaneously picking up valuable phonics skills into the bargain. The design of the book is superb. Every double-page spread is inviting and graphically stimulating. DuBosque's illustrations are eye-popping and always extremely well integrated with Joyce's text. The use of bright colors, ever-changing lines, and bold shapes is very appealing to the eye. The final inclusion of further ideas and challenges for parents and teachers is just more frosting on an already superb cake. What adjective begins with "T" and ends with "C" and best describes "Alphabet Riddles"? No mystery at all; the word is "Terrific!" -- Jerry Flack, Professor of Education, University of Colorado Highly recommended. Excellent alphabet book with wonderful riddles and bright illustrations. --Fairfax County, Virginia, Public Schools Review Program
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