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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2015 | Preschool
PreS-Gr 1—Though alphabet books have proliferated in the years since Johnson published his Caldecott Honor book Alphabet City (Viking, 1999), his concept, which is about looking, not about language, remains distinctive. Twenty years after Johnson's initial foray into the genre, there are still very few alphabet books that are about visual discovery. Each page takes readers to a schoolhouse and asks them to identify the alphabetic shape within the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2015
Harking back to his first book (the Caldecott Honor–winning Alphabet City, rev. 11/95), Johnson shows the shapes of letters in everyday scenes, this time within a school, concentrating solely on letterforms rather than on words that begin with those letters. The illustrations (described on the copyright page as "monoprints on paper with digital enhancement") have a grainy texture that gives them a softer, more handmade...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2015
Johnson shows the shapes of letters in everyday scenes within a school. For each image ("monoprints on paper with digita...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
