Reviews for The Complete Book of Handwriting, Grades K-3

The average rating for The Complete Book of Handwriting, Grades K-3 based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-01-08 00:00:00 Paul Schumann Have you ever looked at a cover and you groan because it looks like a book you don't want to read? Then, you read the book and it's confirmed what you felt from the cover. I know we aren't supposed to judge a book by its cover, but there are times that cover shows perfectly who that book is. This is one of those books. I saw the cover and it was just what the book was. The author takes a letter per full page spread and then has 4 boxes she shows that letter changing into the noun on the other side of the page. I guess it's a cute concept, but this book simply wasn't for me, I guess. It's creative and a little like, why. I also want to know why this won a Caldecott. Was there not something better out there that year. I don't believe this represents the best of 1986. I'm not buying it. This is a beginning alphabet book. Nothing new here. It's basically wordless. There is the word of the thing per page. The artwork did show imagination to some extent, but it was a little confusing in that it turned n upside down for nest, which looked like u, and it turned u upside down for umbrella, which in turn looked like n. The nephew doesn't need this to be confused in his head any more than it can be. The niece was not impressed. She gave this 1 star for being so young and she was not interested in reading it in the first place. The nephew enjoyed some of the animals, but generally he was above this book too. He has finally learned his letters. He gave this 2 stars. Mostly, I have loved the books I'm exposed to reading the Caldecott list, but there have been a small handful that have been really terrible. It is only a few.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-12-10 00:00:00 Tony DiSanto Alphabatics Loved this one! So delightful, creative, interesting, involving. I really see why this received a Caldecott Honor. It's fascinating and fun to see how the letters morph into what they depict (for example, the letter "C" rotates and becomes the smile on a Clown; the letter "K" floats up and billows out to become a kite; the letter "T" sprouts extra branches and leaves to become a tree).