The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Bunting, Eve

Girls: A to Z

32 pp. | Boyds | October, 2002 | Trade ISBN 1-56397-147-X $$15.95

(4) PS Illustrated by Suzanne Bloom. In this rhyming alphabet book, twenty-six girls, each of whose names begins with a different letter, are shown energetically pursuing their presumed future vocations ("Aliki is an astronaut, / Belinda likes ballet, / Chris is a computer whiz-- / she's online every day"). The festive illustrations of the girls simultaneously at work and at play make the book's wrap-up--"Girls, / Be anything you want to be," etc.--unnecessary.

Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann