Reviews for "T" is for "terrific"

The average rating for "T" is for "terrific" based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-10-22 00:00:00 Charles Davis Now, before I even get started, I want to thank the author of this book for showing a picture of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Our copy of ABC NYC listed only "vendors" for V, and I was very disappointed because, well, the Verrazano is a pretty bridge and I've been looking at it as my touchstone since I was a kid. So seeing it in a picture book, the very same bridge my nieces can see from their mother's window or walking along the water - it's special to me. That doesn't affect my rating, it's just incidental. This book isn't an alphabet book that happens to have a citified theme, it's an ode to NYC that happens to be written in abecedarian format. And as odes to the city go, this one is pretty great. The author caught a lot of different events and scenes, and the scenes included an appropriate amount of diversity, something you don't always see in picture books. It really was like looking at my own home :) Only thing? It's not so much like looking at my home NOW. The pictures are a bit dated, they look more like NYC when I was a kid. And so this book *was* published when I was a kid, so that makes sense, but it did make me feel slightly awkward reading it... kinda like when you look at your high school yearbook and cringe at what you thought of as good fashion choices, you know?

Review # 2 was written on 2018-12-06 00:00:00 John Burg > I like this story because it presents the alphabet but in a way that is not so clean cut and straightforward which is unique. This gives the children the chance to search for the letters in the various scenes and it will help them to see the importance of the physical similarities and differences between letters > The letters are engulfed in different snapshots of a city and I think after seeing those letters in different scenery, children will start to look for the alphabet letters in their everyday lives