Dog's ABC: A Silly Story about the Alphabet

Emma Dodd. Dutton Books, $14.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-525-46837-0

The spunky canine from Dog's Colorful Day returns in Dog's ABC: A Silly Story About the Alphabet by Emma Dodd. In the beginning, ""An apple falls on his head/ Dog barks, and a bird flies/ out of the apple tree."" The words ""apple"" and ""bird"" appear in opposite corners of the spread, next to their upper- and lowercase initial letters. ( Jan.)

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