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Also by Steve Martin:

The Ten, Make That Nine, Habits of Very Organized People. Make That Ten., March 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
An Object of Beauty, November 2010
Hardcover
Born Standing Up, September 2008
Paperback / e-Book
Born Standing Up, November 2007
Hardcover
The Alphabet from A to Y With Bonus Letter Z!, November 2007
Hardcover
Shopgirl, September 2005
Trade Size (reprint)

Also by Roz Chast:

Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, May 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
What I Hate, October 2011
Hardcover
The Alphabet from A to Y With Bonus Letter Z!, November 2007
Hardcover
Theories of Everything, November 2006
Hardcover

The Alphabet from A to Y With Bonus Letter Z!
Steve Martin, Roz Chast

Flying Dolphin Press
November 2007
On Sale: October 23, 2007
64 pages
ISBN: 0385516622
EAN: 9780385516624
Hardcover
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Childrens

The acclaimed entertainer and bestselling author Steve Martin and the wildly clever New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast team up in a weird, wonderful excursion through the alphabet.

The ABCs have never had it so good. Created by two of today’s wittiest, most imaginative minds, The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z! is a sheer delight from A to Z. In twenty-six alliterative couplets, Steve Martin conjures up much more than mere apples and zebras. Instead we meet Horace the hare, whose hairdo hides hunchbacks, and Ollie the owl, who owed Owen an oboe. Roz Chast contributes the perfect visual settings for Martin’s zany two-liners. Her instantly recognizable drawings are packed with humorous touches both broad and subtle.

Each rereading—and there will be many—delivers new delights and discoveries. There, hidden behind Bad Baby Bubbleducks, is a framed picture of a beatnik holding balloons; and the letter C finds clunky Clarissa all clingy and clueless adrift in a landscape cluttered with images ranging from a curiously comfortable clown to Chuck’s Chili stand. A smart, laugh-inducing introduction to the alphabet for young children, The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z! will also enchant adults with its matchless mix of the sophisticated and the silly.

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