Also, kids should reach for our book because of the purple turban-wearing pteranodon with a skin condition. Haldar and his friend Chris Carpenter, a software engineer, came up with the idea for the alphabet book. Amid all the humour, wordplay, and silliness, there's solid, brain-teasing information about words and how they're spelled.

The down side is that on occasion the authors have some forced curtsy sentences to go with their examples.

The art is fully integrated, illustrating the action and supplementing the text with speech bubbles, facsimile letters and posters, Brambles’ profit-and-loss notes, examples of Gert’s invented vocabulary and more. The purpose of this book is not to learn letter sounds; however, but for readers to understand that language is complex and sometimes unpredictable. The complexity doesn’t reside alone in big foreign words such as “tsunami”, “Tchaikovsky” and “tchotchkes”. I: be fore "e" except after "c" is arbitrary enough if you are going to pretend away words like Chief, Believe and Field and there are others. While other lessons teach really important principles that, honestly, could change your life and maybe even help you find love.

As Campbell (2019) reminds us, the “number of phonemes and written combinations keep growing as foreign language words are adopted into the English language” (p. A clever book that mocks other alphabet books for children by using silent letters, homophones, and alternate letter sounds. Readers in UK and Australia will note that some pronunciations are American, but this does not detract from the entertainment value of this clever book. Raj Haldar and Chris Carpenter are back with their second installment, continuing to lay bare the absurdity of the English language.After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there? The title, P Is For Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever, is not a judgment; it’s the actual name of the book! Once we were able to cross that hurdle, our amazing illustrator, Maria Beddia spent a year in her studio working on the funny drawings.