  | Full Text Reviews: Booklist - 04/15/2018 Tired of being relegated to the end of the alphabet, Z recruits complacent Y (who “didn’t even mind being called both a consonant and a vowel”) to join her as she scoots around to the front and then proceeds to glide grandly past all the other letters. The trip is far from uneventful: rotund D blocks the way until bought off with doughnuts (a “baker’s dozen”—readers unfamiliar with the term can count them in the picture), egotistic E tries to trip them up (as does Q later on), and other letters likewise make trouble. Perry uses loud colors, along with lots of polka-dots and streaks, to give the illustrations a psychedelic, Peter Max vibe, and outfits all the letters with pop-eyed faces. All are easily recognizable, except, oddly, for the narcissistic I, who, despite being referred to in the uppercase, is illustrated as a lowercase i. Finally passing X, who is (wait for it) “always cross,” the two no sooner finish their alphabetical ramble than Z wants to start over. So will young abecedarians. - Copyright 2018 Booklist. Loading...
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