One of my favorite children’s author and illustrator is Eric Carle and though this week’s kid-friendly app isn’t a Carle creation, the artwork featured throughout the app appears to be modeled after ...

Remember those phonics songs from elementary school that helped teach the alphabet? “A is for Apple, B is for Ball”? London-based illustrator Marcus Reed does, but his tastes run more toward ...

Find the best alphabet picture books for kids that aren’t just for babies and toddlers, they are also for preschoolers and early and upper elementary children. In fact, a good alphabet book is great ...

For almost six months in a row, my daughter’s nightly bedtime routine started with her climbing onto my lap and handing me her favorite book. Before we even flipped it open, she and I would repeat ...

You see the strangest things walking around Capitol Hill and surrounding neighborhoods: A koala playfully swinging from a lamppost; a pod of narwhals swarming around a street sign; a giant pink ant ...

Andy the orangutan from the Bronx Zoo is learning his ABC's from his zoo-keeper friend. Each letter is taught by associating the name of an animal from the zoo with each letter of the alphabet.

Oxford Literary Review, Vol. 41, No. 2, Deconstruction and the Child Children’s Literature: Anthropomorphism: Animality: Posthumanism (2019), pp. 219-237 (19 pages) For generations, alphabet books ...