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Rosenthal, Amy Krouse

Al Pha's Bet

32 pp. | Putnam | May, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-399-24601-2 $16.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Delphine Durand. "After the twenty-six letters had been invented," Al Pha takes up the challenge of putting them in order. His logic is often a stretch (E next to F because they look alike, P because "just then, nature called"), but it may still help readers make sense of the alphabet's seemingly arbitrary order. Acrylic illustrations of characters shaped like thumbs enhance the humor.
Reviewer: Shoshana Flax

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