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This book is about all of the letters in the alphabet racing up to the top of a coconut tree.
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Summary of Professional Reviews:Review by Kimberly Jones:
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom attracts the reader's attention for its unusual qualities. "It emphasizes the letters of the alphabet themselves, relates an original story, and uses a designer's palette. Unlike the typical alphabet book with a single letter on a page with accompanying objects, this book portrays the twenty-six letters as actors in a scene. Each one attempts to climb toward the top of the coconut tree in alphabetical order, only to tumble down again as the tree bends with their weight. The rhythmic text reads like a skipping rope chant, and is self-sufficient."
This book displays large, colorful pictures that captures the eye's of the reader and those looking though/ listening to the book. I enjoy the rhythm the book portrays while reading and the abilty for the listener to follow along by shouting "BOOM BOOM" after hearing the pervious words of "CHICKA CHICKA."
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This book would be useful when teaching children about the alphabet in a sense of the order the letters appear in the ABC's sequence, what the lowercase letters look like and what uppercase letter matches with that lowercase letter.