The Humpherys Family

The Alphabet Tree

Record Added: 12/13/2009
Author Leo Lionni
Illustrator Leo Lionni
Topic ABC's, 123's, School Read
 Nature: Birds, Animals, F
Publisher Pantheon Books
Year 1968
Age 4-8   Pages 40
Description Large, printed binding
 
The wordbug teaches the letters on the alphabet tree, torn and tossed by a windstorm, how to become stronger by banding together to form words. Then a clever purple caterpillar teaches the letters to become even stronger by forming sentences with a message of peace.

When a fierce wind threatens to blow all the little letters out of the alphabet tree, they must band together in words-and then sentences-to create a message that's even stronger than the wind: peace on earth. With their newfound knowledge, there's nothing the letters can't do in this gentle parable about the power of the written word.
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