Alpha Oops! The Day Z Went First by Alethea Kontis

This book had a unique concept of how the alphabet could be rearranged to allow letters at the end to be closer to the beginning. I thought the idea was clever, but didn't really enjoy this book's execution. As we talked in class during our genre presentations, learning the alphabet from conventional abc books isn't always helpful. In school, letters are often selected in a seemingly random way, without concern for order. The problem could be with a secret of mine: I like to alphabetize. Yep, I like it when student papers are in abc order, signs, books, whatever. I am very orderly and organized, so letting the letters go all over the place seemed wrong.

The illustrations were digital and interesting to look at. The use of bright colors and bold designs are certainly attractive to the reader. I did think certain parts of the book were funny--one was for the letter V. "V is for ohhh--V is for violence!" was uttered by a letter as other letters struggled to be next in line.