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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