Reviews for ABC book

The average rating for ABC book based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-06-21 00:00:00 Autumn Veilleux A Classic ABC book. My three year old loves it. My favorite page is M is for Mouse, her favorite is U is for Unicorn. We both stumbled with X is for Xiphius, but all the woodcuts are beautiful, and we don't mind rereading it three times in a row.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-10-11 00:00:00 Alan Lueck ABC Book by CB Falls was published in 1923. It is twenty-six woodcut prints. Unlike modern day ABC books that often have a story with the illustrations, or a central theme, there isn't one here. I suppose these are just words the author / illustrator thought children of the 1920s should know. The illustrations cover the mundane to the exotic. There is a yak, a jaguar, and a unicorn as well as more common things like a turkey, a horse, and a bear. My all time favorite, though, is C is for cat, featuring a gorgeously rendered calico before a bowl of milk. She has similar spots to my own calico. The artist behind this gorgeous book is Charles Buckles Falls (1874-1960). According to the National Heritage Museum site Falls worked in all sorts of media and industries including posters, book binding, advertising, and furniture. The book I read was a gorgeous first edition that belongs to the K-12 collection at Holy Names University. It was one of the hundreds of books I cataloged for my fall internship.