A Farmer's Alphabet by Mary Azarian
	List Price:   $15.95 Unit Price:   $12.76 You Save:   $3.19 (20%) ISBN-10:   0879233974 ISBN-13:   9780879233976 Publisher:   David R Godine Edition:   illustrated Category:   Agriculture, ABC's & 123's Pub. Date:   July 1981 Pages:   64 Ages:   4 to 7 Grades:   ps to 2
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Subjects
JUVENILE NONFICTION Concepts Alphabet
Description/Notes
A beautifully illustrated book with 2-color woodcuts. In 1980, the Vermont Board of Education commissioned Azarian to create 26 letters that could be used as flashcards to teach second-grade scholars the alphabet. Substantially enlarged and in book form, this 'Farmer's Alphabet' has been as huge a success as it was in the classroom, for the artist is a brilliant full-time printmaker who has endowed these rural scenes with wit, dignity, and imagination. Both the capitals and lowercase letters appear in 'Apple' through 'Zinnia,' each tuned to doings in the country throughout the year. No matter where children live - on a farm, in the suburbs, or in the city - they will love this handsome, large-format, two-color book, and so will adult conoisseurs of woodcuts as an art. 1981 Azarian's first book is among our most popular titles. The striking woodcuts of this big, bold alphabet book, printed in two colors on beautiful paper, are a felicitous introduction to upper- and lower-case letters as well as the charms of country life where M stands for Maple Sugar and not McDonald's. An alphabet book of woodcuts featuring activities and objects associated with New England farm life, from Apple, Barn, Cow through aX, Yawn, Zinnia.