Alphabets

Books About the Alphabet

• • Reading the ABCs from Space. Adam Voiland. NASA Earth Observatory, 2015.

  • 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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