A big city ABC Book

I was definitely not a fan of this ABC book by Allan Moak. The reading age for this book I think is early childhood up to kindergarten. It can possibly stretch to first grade. one of the issues I have with this book is the words the author uses. For example the author uses "Excavate" for E and "Yuletide" for Y. I am a 20 year old junior and even I had to figure out what the exact meaning and pronunciation for 'Yuletide" was. If I had issues, I know that young children would have issues as well. The author should have used better diction that was age appropriate. Even though there is pictures to describe the word, it didn't help. Another issue I had with this book is the illustrations. i thought the illustrations didn't fit the diction. Since the paintings were so childish, the diction should have been to. the author uses sophisticated diction with sloppy illustrations to parallel it.