"Once the letters are organised, writing will really take off! Books! Poetry! Love Letters! Stop signs! whoever comes up with the most beautiful arrangement for these twenty-six letters will be remembered for all of time." This is the bet made my the king.
So Al begins. Naturally A needs to be the first letter - A for Al. Then a bee buzzes past - which means the next letter has to be B followed by three more which rhyme - C, D and E. H and I make a word and M is for middle, N and O go together - NO giving up.
Publisher blurb: Wonderful things are being invented every day in Al Pha's world-fire, the wheel, even shadows! His big chance to be part of history comes when the King announces that the twenty-six recently invented letters need to be put in order. Al makes a bet with himself that he's the man for the job. Through a series of funny events, he eventually finds the perfect order for the letters, and the king rewards him by naming his creation the "Alphabet."
I am collecting alphabet books especially titles that are a little bit different, or clever, or unique. Perhaps you are curious about the order of the letters in our alphabet. Here is a fun (totally invented) explanation. Watch this trailer which takes you inside this book. Here is the Kirkus review.
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