Review: Sweet and Short for Thanksgiving
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 11, 2012
This is a cute little alphabet rhyming book with fine illustrations for each letter. A few of the illustrations are pictures of things or people and this is just fine since the purpose of the book is for young children to become familiar with the 26 letters in the alphabet. To the author's credit, she manages to get pretty good Thanksgiving Holiday examples for each letter and keeps the poem within the Thanksgiving Holiday theme. I especially liked the "find it" games with answers (3 of them) and the "find what is different" in two similar pictures (two of them). Children will really enjoy them and parents will be glad to find the answers to the puzzles on a following page. Sometimes the meter breaks down in the poem, but the book is still a good read for parents and their younger children (age 1-5). If your children are age 4-5 they won't be very interested in the alphabet part of the book, but will enjoy the puzzles. If you have a 2 year old and 4 or 5 year old, this would be the perfect audience since the 4-5 year old child will want to help the younger one solve the puzzles and will love coaching the younger one on learning the alphabet.