Alphabets

Books About the Alphabet

• The Gashlycrumb Tinies. Edward Gorey.
• On Market Street. Arnold Lobel. Illustrated by Anitia Label.
• Alligators All Around. Maurice Sendak.
• The Dangerous Alphabet. Neil Gaiman. Illustrated by Gris Grimly.
• Alphabet Soup. Kate Banks, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1988
• Curious George Learns the Alphabet. H. A. Rey. HMH Books for Young Readers, 2012
• Lexie The Word Wrangler. Rebecca Van Slyke. Illustrated by Jessie Hartland, Nancy Paulson Books, 2017
• The Alphabet Thief. Bill Richardson. Illustrated by Roxanna Bikadoroff. Groundwood, 2017
• How Rocket Learned to Read. Tad Hills. Schwartz & Wade Books, 2010.
• Baloney, Henry P. Jon Scieszka. Illustrated by Lane Smith. Puffin Books, 2005
• The Construction Alphabet Book. Jerry Pallotta. Illustrated by Rob Bolster. Charlesbridge, 2016
  • See also The Ocean Alphabet Book, The Icky Bug Alphabet Book, the Dinosaur Alphabet Book and many more by the same author.

History of the Alphabet

• History of the Alphabet from Kahn Academy
• Alphabet Origins: From Kipling to Sinai, Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Phoenician Writing System
• Hieroglyphic writing in ancient Egypt
• Greek alphabet with symbols for consonants and vowels
• Roman Alphabet and the Latin Language
• The Chinese Writing System
• Mayan Writing

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