By: Neil Gaiman Publisher: HarperCollins Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: HarperCollins Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 32 Publication Date: May 01, 2008 Reading Level: Ages 4-8 Release Date: April 29, 2008
Two children, treasure map in hand, and their pet gazelle sneak past their father, out of their house, and into a world beneath the city, where monsters and pirates roam.
Will they find the treasure? Will they make it out alive?
The Dangerous Alphabet is a tale of adventure, piracy, danger, and heroism told in twenty-six alphabetical lines—although even the alphabet is not to be relied upon here. A delightfully dangerous journey from national bestselling author Neil Gaiman and the monstrously talented Gris Grimly, The Dangerous Alphabet is sure to captivate and chill young readers.
anderson I like alphabet books and this one is unique. It is very silly and that is just OK.
Teach Your Children to Fear the Alphabet. Or Love it. One of those Two Emotions. For my young niece's (she is four now, and proud of it) birthday, I decided that what she truly needed in her life was an Alphabet Book. The child has been pestering her mother to learn how to read for nearly two years now, and so I believed it to be my solemn duty to provide her with a Book from Which To Learn. I turned to author Neil Gaiman for aid in this matter, and upon her birthday delivered to her the Dangerous Alphabet.
I am a novice uncle. I do not know what little children enjoy; were it nephews I would buy them Ninja Turtles, but I am confused and frightened by My Little Pony. Literature is the ground that I retreat to, and I am lucky that my niece is a child of learning who enjoys reading.
She loves The Dangerous Alphabet. It is one of her Favourite Books, which means that soon enough she will not have to know how to read it, because she will have Memorized the thing from the repetition of her parents, aunts, uncles, and grandparents reading and re-reading the book to her.
If this is not the kind of book that you want your child to read (I can't imagine why, do you not like children? Do you not believe in Whimsy?) then I would recommend that you get it anyway. You might not want your child reading it, but your child certainly will want to read it.
For those of you who enjoy such things, and would like a book that you can enjoy along with your child, then I heartily recommend this most Dangerous of Alphabets to you.
Delightful for young and old. I bought this book for my wife and I to read to our four year old. She Loves it as much as we do. It is delightfully twisted for adults and just querky enough for kids not to be creeped out by it.
The Dangerous Alphabet - Awesome! The Dangerous Alphabet can be read again and again and again. The pictures are so cool. There is so much to see on one page of the book. I read the book with my son and we re-read when we were finished due to looking for different pictures and talking about what the artist must have been thinking. This book is great for my library collection.
Best for Halloween The Dangerous Alphabet, according to the book jacket, is intended for kids aged 5 and up. I read the book to a small group of boys ranging from age 7 through 14. One 9-year-old decided the book was just `too creepy!" All the boys were distracted by Gris Grimly's busy and macabre illustrations to the point that they lost the sense lurking in several of Neil Gaiman's rhymed couplets and alphabet puns. Example: "C is the way that we find and we look." In other words, "C is for see." The 14-year-old "Really liked the book," but he, along with the younger readers, had difficulty with vocabulary such as entices, embark, elation, discreet, and piracy. The joy of the book is that children and the adults who share it with them may come back to The Dangerous Alphabet again and again to find that the treasure sought for in the book is best discovered by reading it together over and over on Halloween.
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