ABC and you and me
Dolly Parton Imagination Library Blue Ribbon Selection for 2024
Award-winning artist Corinna Luyken inspires kids to move their bodies as they learn the alphabet with this playful approach to a fundamental concept.
Can you wiggle your wrists? Can you twist from your hips? Can you lean without bending your knees? Well then, follow me!
In this original ABC book that encourages readers to sit up and move, kids and grownups use their bodies to make the shapes of each letter (and observant readers will notice details on each page that represent those letters). Gloriously illustrated by the acclaimed creator of The Book of Mistakes and My Heart, this is an inventive new way to learn the alphabet.*
“A playful, vigorous appeal to wriggle, twist, bend, point, and more in the name of imitating alphabet shapes. Spotlighting abundant body positivity and diversity…Luyken’s graceful, flowing lines and subdued pastel colors
bring a softness and warmth
to the whole body-bending adventure.
Learning the alphabet was never so spry.”
-Julie Danielson for Shelf Awareness
“Dang this is a fun book! …an original alphabet book [that] work[s] in elements of a larger conversation about mindfulness and movement…and works out some anti-ableist awesomeness along the way.”
-Betsy Bird, Fuse#8
"The illustrations are [a] standout…fluid and soft, a pale pastel palette setting the tone. All the people are dressed in white, allowing their unique features to stand out. The book’s greatest strength is its diversity—characters vary by ability, age, skin tone, and size, with a wide range of body types on display…an ode to the beauty of the human body."
—Kirkus Reviews
“In a message of acceptance and body positivity, this alphabet book encourages people of all ages and abilities to join in forming letters with their bodies. The soft illustrations include people with a variety of body shapes, ages, and skin and hair colors, plus people using wheelchairs and other assistive devices. This book also would be a natural to incorporate with movement programs for children.”
—Booklist
*download the ABC AND YOU AND ME
classroom movement guide here