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A child’s day: An alphabet of play

Ida Pearle

Picture Book

For ages 2 to 5

Harcourt, 2008, 978-0-15-206552-2

  As we get older one of the things that many of us forget how to do is how to play. For children, playing is as natural as eating or sleeping. They can create a game using a stick or a fallen nut. A palace can be created under a drooping tree, and a galloping horse appears out of thin air. In this picture book Ida Pearle explores the things that young children do in an alphabet book format.

  For each letter of the alphabet Ida Pearle has just a single word and in the accompanying illustration she show shows a child acting out that word. For the letter B for example the word is “blow” and she shows a child blowing a paper pinwheel. Some of the words are quite original. For example for the letter Q Ida Pearle uses the word “quack” and she show a child marching along in with a group of ducks. For R the word is ride, which seems ordinary enough until you look at the picture which shows two children riding a zebra!

  Children and their families will greatly enjoy this simple yet very evocative picture book. Readers will get to see children engaging in those everyday activities that give joy, and that make a day special. Ida Pearle’s extraordinary cut paper illustrations are fluid, vibrant, and wonderfully colorful.

 

 

 

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