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**I received a digital copy of this book for review as well as a monetary compensation**
Linda Jones began writing poetry in 1994. Much of her poetry was published and sold in the scrapbooking market. Alphabet Anatomy is her first published children’s book series.
The idea of the Alphabet Anatomy book is to learn about what the letters do behind the scenes when they’re not busy making words. Personally, I like the idea of the book. I think it adds life to the letters and maybe gets kids imaginations going a little bit.
The book has a visual of each letter in their “behind the scenes” like in illustrations done by Branson Jones one of the author’s sons. (She has 4!) Linda know how important it is to set a good solid reading foundation for our children’s future success as it is the basis for future learning.
I received a digital copy of the book and read it with my youngest son who is 3. I had my older son take a picture. Wasn’t the best picture but I think you get the idea.
As I stated above. I like the idea of the book. I thought the illustrations were cute and kind of made it more engaging for my son. The description of what each letter “does” makes sense and helps to form the letter itself. There were a couple that kind of raised questions with my son.
The letter D is in some water, looks like it could possibly be the ocean. The straight side of the D is a ladder and the description is:
“D climbs a ladder, circles right in a dive, swims back to the ladder and comes out alive” My son seemed kind of concerned and wondered why it would not come out of the water alive. I had to reread it myself a few times until I realized it meant that when it does that, the letter D is formed or “alive” I guess. At least that’s my best positive interpretation for my 3 yr old son.
For the most part my son and I liked the book. If I were to read it to him again I might try to make a few of them a little less concerning for my son. The rhymes made a nice flow to the story however. The illustrations were engaging. The book was just the right length for my 3 yr old’s attention span.
You can find Alphabet Anatomy on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alphabet-Anatomy/396110660453360
and on their website: www.alphabetanatomy.com
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