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Eric Carle's ABC (The World of Eric Carle)

Eric Carle's ABC (The World of Eric Carle)

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Author: Eric Carle
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 6 reviews

Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Baby-Preschool
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 16
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 7.1 x 0.6

ISBN: 0448445646
EAN: 9780448445649

Publication Date: May 31, 2007
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Condition: Standard used condition.

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Product Description
A. B. C. D. Unfold the full-page flaps to reveal an ant, bear, camel, and duck! Eric Carles illustrated alphabet and animals make learning your ABCs as easy as . . . well, A, B, C!


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5 out of 5 stars Eric Carle Illustrations are Cute!   December 30, 2008
We love this product because of the bright colors and vivid imagery that Eric Carle's illustrations provide. This book is your basic ABC book, but the bright colors make it worthwhile.


3 out of 5 stars Not easy to read   August 11, 2008
 4 out of 4 found this review helpful

I love Eric Carle's illustrations, and every child should have an ABC primer in his library, but this book is hard to read with a baby on your lap. The pages fold up and out, and aren't easy to hold for the baby to get a good look. As a result, I don't bring it out very often.


2 out of 5 stars book engineering fails   July 31, 2008
 4 out of 4 found this review helpful

I love Eric Carle and his art and this book doesn't disappoint in that respect.
The problem I have with this book is its major design flaw. You see the A page, but to see the next two pages (B and C) you must lift the entire A page up (the fold is at the top of the book). You can imagine that when you refold the page, it doesn't lay flat against the page unless you hold it down at the center binding. If you don't press it down when you turn the page, you bend the page! It's impossible to not bend the page when you are reading to an animated 15 month old... grrr. Also, having pages that are L-shaped (when unfolded they are a large backward L shape) make them VERY easy to tear. And I do mean EASY. My toddler loves to walk around with his books and this one is truly trashed. I think it has 2 or three pages remaining. But since it is his current-reigning favorite book, I have had to buy replacements that only I can hold while I read to him.
His very favorite parts of the book are the front and back pages. The front has the uppercase alphabet and the back has the lowercase alphabet and when he points at it I have to sing the ABC song. Repeatedly. :-)
A minor irritation is Carle's choice of creatures: quetzal, narwhal, xolo (how do you pronounce these words?!?), and unicorn (the only mythical creature). Aagh.



5 out of 5 stars Fun book   February 15, 2008
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Reviewed by Conner Aguren (age 3) and Mom for Reader Views (2/08)

Eric Carle's signature woodcut illustrations are laid out in a novel, lift-the-flap, walk through the alphabet.

"So do you like the book?"
"Yeah."
"Which was your favorite letter?"
"I like all the letters. I like the pictures. I like the whole book."

Parent's comment:

There is only so much you can do with an ABC primer. Yet "Eric Carle's ABC" takes it just a step further by formatting it in an interesting flap book. The illustrations are top-notch. He introduces some not-so-common animals to represent some of the letters, though I would have chosen a different animal for the letter `G.' He uses the animal `gull' which to me, should be seagull. A better choice that doesn't have other name variations would have been `goose' or `giraffe.' But my son got to see a `quetzel,' a `narwhal' and a `xolo,' so that was fun.



5 out of 5 stars Great Book   November 20, 2007
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

My daughter is 15 months old and loves this book. I go through it with her everyday and we do the ABC's and now she is recognizing some animals. It's a great book!! I just wish the pages were made better because she ripped every page out of the book. I am wondering if they make the book with pages that are like the hardcover..

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