Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.; John Archambault
	List Price:   $17.99 Unit Price:   $14.39 You Save:   $3.60 (20%) ISBN-10:   067167949X ISBN-13:   9780671679491 Publisher:   Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Category:   Picture Books Pub. Date:   October 1989 Pages:   40 Format:   Hardcover; Picture Book Ages:   3 to 6 Grades:   PreSchool to 0
Awards
1990  Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards  Nominee/Honoree  1991  Bluegrass Award  Winner!  1992  Flicker Tale Children's Book Award  Nominee/Honoree
Subjects
PICTURE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN PICTURE BOOKS
Description/Notes
This ABC book makes learning the alphabet fun and easy. In the rollicking alphabet chant, letters A to Z and everything in between zoom up and down the coconut tree! The alphabet dances to a syncopated beat in this lively three-way collaboration. Every child will join in on the eponymous chorus, and even adults will chant along with the bouncy, exuberant rhythm. The letters of the alphabet enjoy a series of adventures. An alphabet rhyme/chant that relates what happens when the whole alphabet tries to climb a coconut tree. A told B, and B told C, I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree. In this lively alphabet rhyme, all the letters of the alphabet race each other up the coconut tree. Will there be enough room? Oh, no-Chicka Chicka Boom! Boom! Now a modern classic, this rhythmic alphabet chant rolls along on waves of fun. Lois Ehlert's rainbow of bright, bold, cheerful colors makes the merry parade of letters unforgettable. Bill Martin Jr has been a teacher, editor, storyteller, and folksinger, and he is the author of more than two hundred books, including Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and, most recently, Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3, also illustrated by Lois Ehlert. He lives in Campbell, Texas. John Archambault is a poet, journalist, and storyteller who worked with Bill Martin Jr for more than a decade. Their collaborations include Knots on a Counting Rope, which was a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. He lives in Idyllwild, California. Lois Ehlert is a designer and illustrator whose work has recently received awards from the Society of Illustrators, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Institute of Graphic Artists. She has illustrated more than twenty books for children, including Eating the Alphabet and Waiting for Wings, which she wrote herself. She makes her home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 'Bright color . . . crisp . . . stylized shapes . . . This book begs to be read aloud.'--'Booklist, ' starred review. 1990 ALA Notable Children's Book; 1990 'Boston Globe/Horn Book' Honor Book; 1990 'Parents' Choice' Honor Book for Story Books; 1990 IRA/CBC Children's Choice Book. Full color.