Storytime: The Alphabet’s Alphabet

Dan Santat is the New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, Are We There Yet?, After the Fall, and Drawn Together, and the illustrator of many other picture books, including Crankenstein by Samantha Berger. Chris Harris is the New York Times bestselling author of I’m Just No Good at Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups, illustrated by Lane Smith. Santat’s and Harris’  The Alphabet’s Alphabet (Little , Brown Books for Young Readers) is a twisted invitation to readers to look at letters in a whole new way: An A is an H that just won’t stand up right, a B is a D with its belt on too tight, and a Z is an L in a tug-of-war fight! Twenty-six letters, unique from each other — and yet, every letter looks just like one another! Kind of like one big family. Two masters of wordplay and visual high jinks offer a mind-bending riddle of delightful lookalikes and surprising disguises. You’ll never look at the alphabet the same way again! Publishers Weekly called it “an amusing, imaginative excursion, and it prods readers — especially those new to reading and writing — to visualize similarities between the symbols. Harris’s versifying nails rhyme and meter, and Santat’s endless stream of energy delivers on over-the-top gag after another.”