Priscilla Turner

Recommended by Cressida H.

An alphabet origin story: "For as long as any letter could remember, Vowels and Consonants had been enemies..." Consonant parents warn their children against playing with vowels, and vice versa. Eventually, dislike and distrust explode into all-out war. But when an "evil scribble" interrupts, a young letter y brings an idea to the vowel and consonant commanders, and four brave letters - STOP - march out against the scribble. "I can't fight that...Next they'll make paragraphs...pages...chapters," says the scrawl, and rolls out of town. The vowels and consonants, brought together by a common enemy, finally realize the good they can do together.… (meer)

This book tells the whimsical story of the letters X and Y landing among the land of numbers called Wontoois. X and Y then discover how some of the numbers are relaxed and even while the others are wild and odd. This discovery leads them to study the numbers more and more. The begin to try to change the way the numbers do things in order to become more similar to the letters way of life. Eventually X and Y both realize they like living among the numbers and they then marry and have both number and letter children of their own. While this book did contain a rather wacky story line it appears the illustrations were even more colorful and wacky. While it was confusing as times I feel the overall purpose of this book was good. Overall this would be a great book to read to a group of young students.… (meer)