The Absolutely Awful Alphabet by Mordicai Gerstein
The alphabet never looked like this before--these letters have drippy noses, scratchy hair, and green teeth. They chase each other and pinch each other, and stick out their tongues. Zany art gives each letter a spectacular new personality, and the humorous, alliterative text is sure to stretch young readers' vocabularies. Readers young and old will never forget these twenty-six letters . . . and will never look at the alphabet the same way again.Jacques Prevert (1900-1977) was a French poet and screenwriter.
Mordicai Gerstein is the author and illustrator of The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, winner of the Caldecott Medal, and has had four books named New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year. Gerstein was born in Los Angeles in 1935. He remembers being inspired as a child by images of fine art, which his mother cut out of Life magazine, and by children's books from the library: I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.
He attended Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, and then got a job in an animated cartoon studio that sent him to New York, where he designed characters and thought up ideas for TV commercials. When a writer named Elizabeth Levy asked him to illustrate a humorous mystery story about two girls and a dog, his book career began, and soon he moved on to writing as well as illustrating. I'm still surprised to be an author, he says. I wonder what I'll write next? Gerstein lives in Westhampton, Massachusetts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780152014940 |
| ISBN 10 | 0152014942 |
| Title | The Absolutely Awful Alphabet |
| Author | Mordicai Gerstein |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harcourt Children's Books |
| Year published | 1999-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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