Sara Prince - An ABC of Baby Animals

An ABC of Baby Animals is an ABC book with a difference. It not only introduces young children to some beautiful animals and birds from across the world, but explores the long and short sounds of the vowels (e.g. E for Emu and E for Elephant), and the hard and soft sounds of the letters C and G (e.g. G for Guinea Pig and G for Giraffe). Upper and lower case letters are found on each page. Fun little facts are included in the back of the book together with all the footprints of each animal – which are fun to create in the sandpit or with paint!

Like all of my books in this baby animal series, they contain a large, easily read font and soft muted colours and sepia tones. This is especially for very young babies, who tend to turn away from bright colours, and also those children with special needs, who often can’t cope with brightly coloured illustrations. While the animal pictures are detailed and realistic, the pages are simple and uncluttered, again for young babies, but also for those with autism etc., who cannot cope with ‘busy’, cluttered pages.

An ABC of Baby Animals was the first book I wrote and also drew the illustrations for. It contains multiple layers to help young children learn the alphabet and explore the different sounds of each letter. This is the first ABC book I’ve found that explores the long and short vowel sounds (e.g. E for Emu and E for Elephant) and also the hard and soft sounds of the letters C and G (i.e. G for Guinea Pig and G for Giraffe). Each letter is accompanied by beautiful illustrations of animals every child will recognise, but also introduces some rare and unusual ones as well. In addition there are pages of fun facts at the back of the book together with the footprints of each animal (although I did make up unicorn footprints, because I couldn’t find them anywhere!!) . An ABC of Baby Animals is the perfect present for babies and young children up to the age of five.