The Alphabet Parade

Iguanas, pandas, tigers too—it’s a letter parade just for you! Introduces the alphabet through fun, poetic text.

Oh what a sight to see--a big parade of letters from A to Z.

When Zoe Z. Zany's grandpa, Yulee Y. Young, gives permission for Zoe to get a pet, she attends the Topsy-Turvy Town Alphabet Pet Parade and is smitten with a mischievous black and white critter creating an increasing amount of chaos. Zoe is sure this animal is her dream pet, so she hops on her bike and a wild chase ensues, scattering the unusual townspeople and their unconventional pets all over Topsy-Turvy Town.Literacy expert Judith E. Torres, MA, CCC-SLP has created this captivating alphabet book inspired by the annual Pet Parade in Santa Fe. Children will love exploring the detail in the illustrations and hunting for Zoe's new pet. The book can be used by parents, speech-language pathologists, and educators to teach language and literacy concepts such as phonemic awareness, letter names and sounds, opposites, animal vocabulary, verbs, pronouns, and story prediction. The story is supplemented with further discussion materials, including a glossary of animals and educational prompts.

There's fun to be found in these ABCs! How often does one see a cat riding a crocodile or a dinosaur dawdling along behind a duck? And why on earth is the elephant carrying an enormous egg? Claire Winteringham's elegant, light-hearted alphabetical scenes will help little ones learn their letters as they identify all manner of things-some extinct, some mythological, some inanimate, and all filled with the timelessness her watercolors are known for.

When Sages spelling and definition of a word reveal her misunderstanding of it to her classmates, she is at first embarrassed but then uses her mistake as inspiration for the vocabulary parade. Full color.

Bipple judges the first parade put on by the Alphabet Eurps. Designed to enhance children's reading readiness.

Can you think of an animal for every letter of the alphabet? In this delightful ABC book, young children will learn the upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet as they meet a parade of creatures - from alligators to zebras, and impalas to quails.

Learning the ABCs has never been so wild! All creatures great and small dazzle young readers in a nose-to-tail march of 98 spectacular species, from aardvarks to zebras, with rare sightings of kookaburra, quetzal and yapok along the way.

Could anything possibly be more fun than a pig parade!? You wouldn't think so. But you'd be wrong. A pig parade is a terrible idea. Pigs hate to march, refuse to wear the uniforms, don't care about floats, and insist on playing country music ballads. Those are just some of the reasons. And trust me, this hysterical book has plenty more!