Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z

This book is good for students who are working on associating letters with objects. There is not really a story. It is more of a book that labels everything. It is very colorful and exposes the readers to new and different fruits, vegetables, and herbs.

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For toddlers, preschool children, and older children (up to first grade).

This book had a lot of fruits and vegetables in it that I have never heard of before. This would be a great book to read during lunch time or right before. I like that this book has the origin of fruits and vegetables in the back. I also like that it has a list of how to sound out the words.

K-1. Eating the Alphabet would be a good book when talking about letter sounds and where they are used on real words. With each letter represented on the page is a variety of fruit and vegetables to show students the name so they can associate the letter with the fruit or vegetable.

The highly colorful alphabet takes the reader from Apple to Zucchini. It includes familiar fruits and vegetables such as banana, blueberry, grapes and watermelon and unfamiliar ones such as watercress, swiss chard, quince and xigua. The illustrations are done in watercolor collages and the images

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pop off the page and capture the reader's attention.

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This would be a great book to read during pre-k/k when they are learning the alphabet. Also if you are teaching about fruits and vegetables. The book goes through the alphabet and lists the fruits and vegetables that start with every letter.

This is a book that introduces the alphabet and fruits and vegetables. It goes from a to z and names different fruits and vegetables.

This is an alphabet book. It compares all the letters of the alphabet to different fruits and vegetables. This is a good learning book for young emergent readers that are learning their letters. It is very colorful and would make learning and practicing the alphabet fun.

Retelling: This book is more of a glossary than anything else. The author found a food that begins with each letter in the alphabet. To read more about each vegetable you have to flip to the glossary at the end.

Thoughts and feelings: I would not recommend this book as a read-aloud. I would,

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however, be interested to find out which fruits and vegetables young people have tried and which they haven't. I am quite old and a vegetarian, so there are only a few I haven't tried. I have not tried jicama or quince. I didn't know that radicchio was called radicchio, but I have tried it. It might be fun to make a graph or have a taste testing, or see if you could use the index of a large cookbook to find recipes that use some of the stranger vegetables and fruit.

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Nice, brightly colored pictures of fruits and vegetables that help teach the alphabet. I like that Ehlert included some familiar fruits and vegetables as well as some not so familiar fruits and vegatables. The last page lists all of the fruits and vegetables mentioned in the book and

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includes the pronunciation for each as well as a detailed, informational paragraph about each one. Teachers can have students create their own classroom book adaptation such as "Playing the Alphabet". Students come up with an activity for each letter.

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This is an interesting take on an alphabet book. I don't know if I would use it in my classroom but I would have it in my library. The book goes through the alphabet by using different fruits and vegetables that are unfamiliar to most people. The back of the book has a glossary which tells what the

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fruit is and where it is grown. The pictures are cute, but it isn't a book I would read in my class.

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A brightly-colored alphabet book that depicts the letters with an accompanied piece of produce. The high contrast of the images against the white background will interest the youngest of readers.

I enjoyed this book tremendously!
-How Elhert's unique style of cutting an
pasting in her
illustrations focus on the way that light hits the fruit or vegetable at different angles, because of this her art has a very realistic quality, that teaches about each fruit and vegetable because of the details

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she's managed to capture in this artistic technique. She's one of my favorite picture book authors and illustrators. I have learned about how to make this same effect in artwork in my work with children and they just absolutely loved it.

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Eating the Alphabet is a colored picture book of the alphabet pictured with fruits and vegetables. The book pictures one letter on each page and a illustrations of the fruit/ vegetable. The food they pick is interesting and unique which provides something fun for children who have not heard of some

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of these foods. Some examples are: fig, gooseberry, and pomegranate.

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Great book showing all of the fruits and vegetables. Great book for 1st grade or higher. Great pictures.

This book is a great way to review ABCs as well as introduce children to fruits and vegetables that they may never have heard of. The back of the book includes a guide to the fruits and vegetables mentioned, where they are found, and more background information.

This is a great ABC book because emerging readers will be able to recognize food items and learn about some they may not know. It's also a great tool for teaching emerging writers about labels.

Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z is a great addition to have in any classroom library. Each fruit and vegetable is colorfully illustrated,and labled with upper & lower case letters. The book is great for introducing and teaching young children of different kinds of healthy treat

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from A - apricots to- Z zucchinis, that can be grown and prouduced all over the world. The book includes a glossary in the back of the book that gives a brief information of each food item as well as how to pronounce it's name. Great for young children ages 3 to 6 years old, can be used to learn about health eating, the differences between fruits and veggies, can have children make their own friuts and veggie ABC book, can have a taste testing in class, possble class garden. Book comes in oversize form.

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Lois Ehlert has a really unusual style of illustration that I find very appealing. In this book she has gathered a collection of fruits and vegetables, some familiar and some more unusual, to illustrate the alphabet. Older children will probably find this quite boring unless they are interested in

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the lovely artwork, although there is a glossary in the back explaining each food that could be of interest. The book really is more valuable for younger children who are learning the alphabet and can use the foods they are familiar with the make connections between letters and sounds.

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Ehlert, L. (1989). Eating the alphabet: fruits and vegetables from A to Z. San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company.
Ages: 3 to 6 years old
Eating the alphabet: fruits and vegetables from A to Z is a thematic ABC book that teaches children vocabulary related, as the title clearly indicates, fruits and

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vegetables. With an invitation in rhyme—Apple to Zucchini, /come take a look. /Start eating your way/ through this alphabet book.”—children are taken through a journey of big, colorful pictures of fruits and vegetables paired up with the words that name them. Fruits and vegetables are presented clearly, and even though some pages show as many as four items, they are clearly labeled. It is obvious to the reader what this book is about; the bright watercolor collages make the fruits and vegetables jump out of the page in all their juicy glory. Each item is labeled in capital letters as well as lower case type in a font easy to understand. From A to Z, children navigate through golden apricots, blue huckleberries, and purple radicchio to reach green zucchini. A useful glossary with small images of each fruit and vegetable with pronunciation key provides reinforcement of the concepts. Eating the alphabet: fruits and vegetables from A to Z is a beautifully illustrated ABC book that teaches useful information and supports healthy eating.

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Ehlert, L. (1989). Eating the alphabet: Fruits & vegetables from A to Z. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace & Company.

In order to write this alphabet book, Ehlert visited her local grocery story in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On her first trip, she bought apples, apricots, artichokes, asparagus, and an

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avocado. Several weeks later, she bought more fruits and vegetables beginning with the letter “b.” This process took her a year.

Eating the Alphabet introduces a variety of fruits and vegetables. Some fruits and vegetables are familiar, while others might seem mysterious, such as jicama, kohlrabi, or okra. Ehlert provides a glossary in the back of the book that briefly describes each fruit or vegetable, including its origination and its pronunciation.

The youngest readers will be captivated by this book not only because its interesting fruits and vegetables, but also because of its brilliant illustrations. Ehlert uses watercolor collages to depict the fruits and vegetables. The watercolors and construction paper create vibrant, eye-catching pictures. Each item is clearly labeled in uppercase and lower case letters.

Although there is not an alphabet chant like Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, children will still be drawn to the book because of its interesting fruits and vegetables. After reading the book, classes could maybe even visit groceries stores and see if they could identify all the fruits or vegetables mentioned in the book.

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This book is a wonderful way for students to make connections between letters of the alphabet and foods when learning the alphabet. This will allow for the student to develop the skills needed to notice concrete words with concrete items. Can be very helpful for beginning or struggling readers.

Beautifully illustrated, this book lists fruits and vegetables for every letter of the alphabet. A discussion could include identifying which foods are fruits and which foods are vegetables.

This is a great book to use with your younger students especially when teaching vegetables and fruits, but also when teaching numbers and letters. Ehlert not puts them in alphabetical order but also has a great glossary at the back that is very helpful when introducing some of the fruits that

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listed in the book that we are not that familiar too. Very colorful and bright book.

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