FICTION

ABCs on Wheels

by Ramon OLIVERA
illus. by Ramon Olivera. 40p. ebook available. S. & S./Little Simon. Jul. 2016. Tr $17.99. ISBN 9781481432443.
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PreS-K—Olivera follows up his ABCs on Wings with this mostly terrestrial vehicular alphabet (lunar rover being the only exception). Illustrated in a retro, cartoony style with wonderfully rich colors and angular graphics, cars, limos, buses, and even a stagecoach fill the pages, accompanied by captions that display uppercase and lowercase letters—"Aa is for axle, Bb is for bumper…" and so on. While young readers will be familiar with many of the vehicles pictured, such as an ice-cream truck or a yellow cab, a hot rod, compact, or double-decker might elicit questions and require further explanation.
VERDICT A fun addition to ABC and transportation collections.
Reviewed by Yelena Alekseyeva-Popova, formerly at Chappaqua Library, NY
Olivera (ABCs on Wings) pairs each letter of the alphabet with a vehicle or vehicle-related word and features it in an eye-pleasingly clean-edged scene. For extra vroom, some facing pages cleverly capture a relationship between two letters: e.g., "Nn is for new car" shows a young man buying brand-new wheels; "Oo is for old car" shows his elderly self selling the now-ancient ride.
 , Jun 01, 2016

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