Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award. An enduring favourite, this collection of poems by Dennis Lee is characterized by strong rhythm, internal and external rhyming patterns, child-pleasing repetition, and childhood topics with a Canadian flavour. Table of contents. A Caldecott Honor book. As each letter of the alphabet is manipulated, it becomes an object beginning with the appropriate sound.
E is transformed into an elephant, o an owl, and u an umbrella.
Letters are shown in both upper and lower case. Each final transformation is correlated with a single word beginning with the appropriate letter of the alphabet. An excellent resource to encourage visual awareness.