A learning adventure awaits with animals to match every letter of the alphabet. Tongue twisters, I spy games, and fun illustrations make this an enjoyable book to read over and over again (although I could have done without the zombie). A cute book, although with many similar books on the market, not entirely unique.
*I received a complimentary copy of this e-book courtesy of Clovercroft Publishing through NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This was very cute and I love the art style of this book. Good education while being engaging for kids

Armored Armadillo to Zippy Zebra, written by Carol Robinson Baker and illustrated by Izzy Bean, is a fantastic little book to help children learn the alphabet. A great book for 2-5 year olds.

Each page (and letter of the alphabet) shares a zany riddle filled with alliteration about an animal. Delightful to read and enhanced with beautiful illustrations teeming with hidden objects just waiting for the reader to find! I know toddlers and young learners will enjoy the magic of language and delight in finding the hidden objects in the illustrations, while older students will revel in the language and enjoy the alliterative nature of the text. I see this being a useful text to teach alliteration in their own writing, as well as creative adjectives and synonyms.

What a fun and playful adventure through this alliterative animal anthology!

The colourful and eye-catching illustrations work perfectly with each letter and sound. My children have enjoyed spotting the varying hidden items in each picture, that connect with the corresponding letter sound.

This is a wonderful resource for learning and reinforcing letter sounds and goes beyond the typical ABC book. My children have requested many, many re-reads of this delightful book. Their favorites included the hungry hippopotamus, lazy lobster and wet wallaby.

With thanks to Clovercroft Publishing, Carol Robinson Baker and NetGalley for this e-ARC to read and review.

This is a perfect book for any school, home or local library to support early learners and emerging readers. Particularly with the helpful resources and ideas for various educational applications of this book.

This was a really fun children’s book to read. The pictures were cute and give you a lot to talk about as you read it to your kids, the alliteration made for tongue twister-y fun, and I really liked that there is a list of objects hidden in all of the pictures for kids to go through and search for! There are also educational applications provided so you can use it for more specific learning activities. Very informative and interactive book that kids will love.

Love the illustrations. I love that in addition to the animals and the alliteration there are also other animals of that letter featured. I like the ispy aspect as well to make it even more fun.

This is a cute book about animals with same letter adjectives to describe them. The illustrations are cute.

Meet a mischievous mongoose, a nosy narwhal, a zippy zebra and more while hunting for hidden objects and twisting tongues. Fantastic fun!
The illustrations by Izzy Bean are imaginative, intricate, delightfully colorful, have hidden objects, and are FUN!
Well suited for reading alone or WITH someone any age, especially ESL, and great for gifting to everyone, but especially to a school, waiting room, or your local public library!
I requested and received a temporary uncorrected eGalley on NetGalley Reader from Carpenter's Son Publishing/Clovercroft Publishing | Clovercroft Publishing via NetGalley.
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Absolutely loved this ABC book! There are many different versions of the ABCs available, but one of my favorite topics is animals. I adore alliteration, and there was so much more than just an alliterative adjective for the animal. Additionally, I caught on quickly that there was an I spy feature where items beginning with the letter of the page were included. I had so much fun trying to guess all the addition A items! When you come to the back matter, it is also amazingly informative. There are the learning objectives and suggested approaches that allows any parents who are utilizing the book to teach their child so much! Totally recommend!!!!

This book was a little more advanced than I thought it would be for an ABC book. A lot of the words are bigger than most early readers would be able to comprehend. I did love the alliteration, but it didn’t seem to come easily with some of the letters and felt forced. The illustrations are amazing, and we loved the little I Spy game included. I’d give this a solid 3.5, but had to go with 4 since I can’t do halves on all platforms.

Absolutely amazing (see what I did there?)! Right off the bat I will say that it's very impressive that the author was able to make miniature poems that COMPLETELY used alliteration and still made some sort of sense! Rather than each page just being a jumble of words with alliteration, the author made up a funny little image for each animal. Speaking of the images, WOW!!! That little hidden scavenger hunt? So clever!! It really added a lot of depth to the book (for me) and it helps readers to actually interact with the book and be active readers. Additionally, it helps teach young readers learn about alliteration even more because the hidden objects are related to the letters as well! I literally have nothing bad to say about this book, and I had so much fun reading it. Bravo!!

I received a copy of this eBook from netGalley for a honest review.

I loved the alliterative quality in this book. Each animal has a different thing going on and the pictures with the little surprises of other things that start with that letter will add hours of fun and learning to this book. I would highly recommended this book to anyone teaching a child a love of reading and interesting words and animals.

This is a perfect alphabet book for children, I would say ages 5+, due to more complicated words bring incorporated. I would recommend this to any family, not only because it has animals, but other items on each page starting with the letter of the alphabet also, so a child has more fun than just being read to. The child can also participate! The author uses alliteration, the use of each word in a sentence so the child has an opportunity to learn words. The use of a glossary and sport the characters, as well as made up games is available at the back of the book also! Fantastic and great art!

Well, this was a surprisingly novel way of teaching kids to recognize their letters and also learn new words, but where is the meaning of these words? Although I must say, iguanitas (haha) had me scratching my head a bit, the unique search-and-find items hidden in the illustrations won me over. Besides that it was a fun and educative little package.

This might be my 4 year old daughter’s new favorite book. This is a clever way to educate children on their alphabet by providing so many words that begin with the letter, colorful illustrations, and a search and find with additional words beginning with the letter! I will definitely be buying a physical copy of this wonderful book and recommending it to my friends in my Mom’s group.

Thank you Carpenter's Son Publishing and Clovercroft Publishing for providing this ARC via NetGalley for an honest review!

Armored Armadillo to Zippy Zebra by Carol Baker : the author uses alliteration for each animal of the alphabet. Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words in a phrase or sentence. She also hides additional objects with the same letter in each illustration to reinforce the letter sound.
At the end of the book is a special “I Spy” feature where there’s a list of words for each letter of the alphabet and the reader can look for those words in the illustration with the letter.
There’s a glossary of all the words used in the book along with the parts of speech.
There’s educational applications that the author gives to be used to teach further.

The book is for ages preschool-3rd grade. It’s a fun and educational book to introduce the alphabet. It introduces the reader to new words to expand his/her vocabulary. It uses detailed and beautiful illustrations to further teach the reader.

Thank you #netgalley

Thank you for the ARC. What a fun animal alphabet book with great illustrations. I wasn’t expecting each letter to have the entire sentence contain that letter so that was a lot of fun. The fact that the pictures reflected the sentence was fun for my toddler.

This was such a well thought out and fun alliteration alphabet book! The additional element of hidden pictures makes it easy to read over and over again and gain something new each time.

The pictures are so beautiful. The whole book kept my kiddos attention. Really appreciate the additional resources and suggestions on how to utilize for further learning.

Absolutely love this one and want to add a physical copy to our personal collection.

Books that do more than I expected get high marks from me, and this certainly does more than I expected. I was OK with the format – a page of highly alliterative text, of almost tongue-twister proportions, and the visual on the facing page. But what it took me some time to twig was that there were visual anachronisms in the image, and they feed in to the alliteration too. And then it was a case of me working out how many there were per page – first I thought they all had three, then soon spotted four – I was a long way before the end before the patient platypus came with six elements beginning with 'p' that don't feature in the descriptive sentence. OK, by the time we come to 'r' we're down to 'rain', so they're not all splendidly included, but they are there, and they're great to point out to an adult that you've found them, proving either your experience with your vocab or your hours rehearsing and poring over these pages.

And that's where this wins. The vocab on the alliterative sentence is probably far too much for a young reader, but there are things throughout for her or him to identify and pick up on, and the visuals do just enough to keep good company for a good time until everything's been mentally itemised. And before you know it, you have a young pair of hands very, very used to holding books – and returning to books. And I would never quibble about someone returning to this book in particular, for it's perfectly harmless and educative fun. And as it does more than I assumed, it gets more stars than I may have assumed beforehand – a full five of them.