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Johnston, Tony

The Magic of Letters

32 pp. | Holiday/Porter | April, 2019 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8234-4159-4 $18.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-8234-4210-2
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Wendell Minor. An exuberant narrator explains what letters are ("Each letter has a name, wonderful and strange") and how they're used ("You can shuffle them around to make loads of mighty words"). Johnston furnishes scads of examples--"Roll them in your mouth like lollipops. / Clunk. Acrobat. Trout. Quesadilla. Flibbertigibbet"--that Minor brings to lyrical life in animal-studded fantastical scenes.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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