Books like Eating the Alphabet
By Lois Ehlert
For the kid who wants to touch, name, and taste everything on the page, this turns the alphabet into a produce aisle worth exploring letter by letter. Bright, bold, and crunchy — collage artwork bursting with color from A to Z.
Bold die-cut shapes stack and overlap page after page, transforming circles, squares, and triangles into nine recognizable zoo animal faces right before your eyes.
An alphabet journey through iconic fine art, pairing each letter with a famous painting — spotting the earring in Vermeer's Girl with the Pearl Earring, counting fruit in Cezanne's still life, and more.
A big, friendly bear wanders through the woods noticing colors all around him — inviting little ones to spot matching colors of their own on every page.
A curious kid heads outside to explore wind firsthand — feeling it push and pull, chasing hats, and figuring out why something you can't see is so easy to feel.
A single yellow dot invites the reader to press it, tap it, and tilt the book — and with each turn of the page, the dots multiply, scatter, and change color right before your eyes.
A bright, rhyming romp through a day in the life of birds — from the rooster's dawn crow to the owl's nighttime call — inviting little ones to cheep and tweet along.
A ravenous little mouse sits down to lunch and can't stop eating, working his way through a crisp white turnip, orange carrots, yellow corn, and green peas until his belly is bulging.
A rhyming game of I Spy sends little eyes hunting through orchards and riverbanks for Tom Thumb, Bo-Peep, and other familiar fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters hidden in each picture.
A wordless journey through city streets where ordinary things — fire escapes, scaffolding, road signs — reveal the shape of a letter, all the way from A to Z.
An alphabet book set inside a lavish old Victorian mansion, where animals from A to Z turn up in surprising rooms — an elephant playing trains in the ballroom, a zebra soaking in the bathtub.
All the letters of the alphabet race each other up a coconut tree, chanting chicka chicka boom boom, until so many pile on that the whole tree tumbles them down.
A rhyming romp through everything that counts as a house — anthills, dog kennels, corn husks, pea pods — and eventually the surprising idea that a shoe, a mirror, even a word, might have a house too.
