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Numbers and letters are the building blocks of all education. Students would never learn differential calculus if they weren't first taught to count, and they wouldn't read The Brothers Karamazov if they didn't know their ABCs long before. It stands to reason, then, that if we want to raise children who actually enjoy learning, we'll do our best to make their first steps on that path fun and exciting.

What could be more exciting than a dinosaur for every letter of the alphabet? or three bipedal animals teaching basic counting? or showing kids how to count from one to ten....in Swahili? Some of the best children's illustrators have supplied artwork for books like these, so that young readers are actually learning to identify numerals and letters while absorbing beautiful and engaging pictures.

Some titles are even more educational than just teaching the basics—a series from Sleeping Bear Press offers stunningly illustrated "state alphabets" which teach kids each letter A-Z through U.S. state-specific words and phrases. For example, T is for Tar-Heel is a North Carolina alphabet; B is for Beaver State uses Oregon words. We don't carry them all yet, but there's an alphabet book for each of the fifty states.

We really don't think kids should be committed to learning simply because it's fun. There are times in anyone's academic career (whether as a kindergartner or graduate student) when learning is difficult and a drudgery. But we're more likely to end up with children who enjoy picking up a book or completing a math lesson if we make it a positive experience from the outset—the books in this category can help toward that end.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
C. Hollis Crossman used to be a child. Now he's a husband and father who loves church, good food, and weird stuff. He might be a mythical creature, but he's definitely not a centaur. Read more of his reviews here.

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	1, 2, 3, Go! Bilingual Chinese and English by Huy Voun Lee from Henry Holt and Company for Preschool-3rd grade in China (Location: HISMC-CHI) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	ABC Doctor Staying Healthy from A to Z by Liz Murphy from Chronicle Books for Kindergarten-2nd grade in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	ABC's of Character by Tony & Kathy Salerno with Andy Holmes, illustrated by Cesar De Castro from Magination Press for Preschool-2nd grade in Character Building (Location: BIB-CH) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Alphabet From A to Z Facsimile from Western Publishing for Nursery-2nd grade in Little Golden Books (Location: PIC-GOLD) $3.50 (1 in stock)
	Angry Book My ABC of Mean Things by Robin King from W. W. Norton and Co. for Kindergarten-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $25.00 (1 in stock)
	Animal Characters An Alphabet by Jean Christian Knaff by Jean Christian Knaff from Picture Book Studio for Preschool-2nd grade in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Animalia by Graeme Base from Harry N. Abrams, Inc. for Kindergarten-3rd in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER) $7.00 (1 in stock)
	Animals in the Zoo by Feodor Rojankovsky from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. for Nursery-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Anno's Counting Book by Mitsumasa Anno from HarperCollins for Preschool-1st grade in Math Picture Books (Location: MATR-PIC) $8.99 $4.50 (2 in stock)
	B is for Beaver An Oregon Alphabet by Marie & Roland Smith, illustrated by Michael Roydon from Sleeping Bear Press for nursery-3rd grade in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH) $18.99 $8.50 (1 in stock)
	Brown Cow Farm A Counting Book by Dahlov Ipcar First Edition from Doubleday & Company for Nursery-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Bushels of Bears by Sue Hegarty, illustrated by Alice Shaw from Zon International for Nursery-2nd grade in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Caribou Alphabet by Mary Beth Owens from Dog Ear Press for Preschool-2nd grade in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Christmas Alphabet Deluxe Anniversary Edition by Robert Sabuda from Orchard Books for Nursery-2nd grade in Christmas & Advent (Location: HOLIDAY) $11.00 (1 in stock)
	Circus Numbers A Counting Book by Rodney Peppe Revised from Delacorte Press for Nursery-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	City Seen from A to Z by Rachel Isadora from Greenwillow Books for Nursery-1st grade in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Dilly-Dally and the Nine Secrets by Elizabeth MacDonald, Illustrated by Ken Brown from Dutton Children's Books for Kindergarten-2nd grade in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Eye Book by Theodore Le Sieg from Random House for 2nd-3rd grade in Beginner Books (Location: EAR-BB) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	EyeLike Letters The Alphabet in the Natural World from Play Bac for Preschool-2nd grade in Preschool / Early Learning / Kindergarten (Location: PRE-EAR) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Farmer's Dozen by Sandra Joanne Russell Stated First Edition from Harper & Row for Nursery-2nd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Frog Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta from Charlesbridge for Nursery-Kindergarten in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	From Akebu to Zapotec A Book of Bibleless Peoples by June Hathersmith from Wycliffe Bible Translators for Preschool-2nd grade in Church History for Kids (Location: XCH-KID) $6.00 (3 in stock)
	Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb Bright & Early Books by Al Perkins from Random House Books for Young Readers for Nursery-Kindergarten in Beginner Books (Location: EAR-BB) $9.99 $5.00 (2 in stock)
	Hebrew Alphabet Book by Avi Margalit, illustrator from Funk & Wagnalls for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $35.00 (1 in stock)
	Hosie's Alphabet by Hosea, Tobias and Lisa Baskin, illustrated by Leonard Baskin from Viking Press for Nursery-2nd grade 1973 Caldecott Honor Book in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Illustrated Comic Alphabet by Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon from Henry Z. Walck, Inc. for Nursery-2nd grade in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	In a Pumpkin Shell A Mother Goose A B C by Joan Walsh Anglund from Harcourt, Brace & World for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $18.00 (1 in stock)
	In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming from Henry Holt and Company Word Books for Nursery-Kindergarten 1994 Caldecott Honor Book in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $3.00 (2 in stock)
	M&M's Counting Book by Barbara Barbieri McGrath from Charlesbridge for Preschool-Kindergarten in Math Picture Books (Location: MATR-PIC) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Mary Poppins from A to Z by P. L. Travers, illustrated by Mary Shepard from Harcourt, Brace & World for 4th-7th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	My Big Golden Counting Book by Lillian Moore, illustrated by Garth Williams 1978 Printing from Golden Press for Preschool-2nd grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	My First Counting Book by Lilian Moore from Golden Books for Nursery-Kindergarten in Little Golden Books (Location: PIC-GOLD) $2.50 (2 in stock)
	Only One Woof by James Herriot, illustrated by Peter Barrett from St. Martin's Press Realistic Animal Stories for Preschool-2nd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Over on a Mountain Somewhere in the World by Marianne Berkes, illustrated by Jill Dubin from Dawn Publications for Preschool-2nd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Pierrot's ABC Garden by Anita Lobel from Golden Books for Preeschool-1st grade in Little Golden Books (Location: PIC-GOLD) $1.50 (1 in stock)
	Pigs from A to Z by Arthur Geisert from Houghton Mifflin for Preschool-2nd grade in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Put Me In the Zoo by Robert Lopshire Book Club Edition from Random House for Preschool-2nd grade in Beginner Books (Location: EAR-BB) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	S is for S'mores A Camping Alphabet by Helen Foster James, illustrated by Lita Judge from Sleeping Bear Press for Nursery-2nd grade in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	S is for Salmon A Pacific Northwest Alphabet by Hannah Viano from Sasquatch Books for Nursery-2nd grade in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Teddy Bear ABC by Laura Rinkle Johnson, illustrated by Margaret Landers Sanford from Green Tiger Press for Nursery-2nd grade in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang from Greenwillow Books for Preschool- 3rd Grade 1984 Caldecott Honor book in Math Picture Books (Location: MATR-PIC) $7.99 $4.00 (1 in stock)
	The Ultimate Alphabet by Mike Wilks from Henry Holt and Company for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	The Ultimate Alphabet by Mike Wilks from Henry Holt and Company for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH) $7.50 (1 in stock)
	What Will I Be from A to Z by Donald L. Gelb from National Dairy Council for Preschool-1st grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC) $2.00 (2 in stock)
	World of Wonders A Trip Through Numbers by Eileen Doolittle from Houghton Mifflin for Grades 1st-3rd in Clearance: Math (Location: ZCLE-MAT) $3.00 (1 in stock)

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