A Is for Amos
A Is for Amos
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) | March 4, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0374300011 | 32 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) | March 4, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0374300011 | 32 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In this unique combination of alphabet book and storybook, Chandra's (Balloons and Other Poems) galloping rhymes and Narahashi's (I Have a Friend) inviting watercolors take an imaginative cowgirl for a memorable ride. The title page features a jeans-clad, barefoot girl staring wistfully out the window with her calico rocking horse in the foreground. At the turn of each succeeding page, the girl is riding a real horse (the A for Amos of the title, also calico), as they go "B for the bumpity bridge we cross/ C for the clippety clop of his trot," and so on through the alphabet. They ride past the F for farmer and through M for mud ("Sloppity cloppety thumpety thud/ Past pigs in a puddle/ M is for mud"). They hurry to get out of the rain ("V for weather vane that's twirling/ W for wild wind whirling") and finally reach the cozy barn ("X for extra-dry and warm") where the walls fade back to the wallpaper print of the girl's room.