The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Sneed, Brad

Picture a Letter

32 pp. | Fogelman | June, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-8037-2613-9 $$15.99

(3) K-3 In this wordless alphabet book, each page features a representative object colored and contorted into the shape of a letter (e.g., an acrobat is bent into an A) against a phantasmagoric black-and-white background. The pictorial backdrops are accomplished graphite drawings containing numerous other representative objects. Images of uncuddly animals and several letters that verge on the grotesque mean this book isn't for the very young--but it will captivate everyone else.

Reviewer: Nell Beram