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A Spirited Alphabet
written by Morgan Simone Daleo
illustrated by Frank Riccio
A is for angel, asleep in his bed.
B is the beauty of birds overhead.
Morgan Daleo's delightful verse, blended with Frank Riccio's rich and vibrant illustrations, provides ample opportunity for parents and teachers to start teaching children values that will help them grow to become the caring, loving adults that you hope them to be. This beautiful and unique rhyming alphabet book encourages young children to connect the letters that form the basis of language with words of wonder such as beauty, faith, joy, and love. Although the gentle rhyme draws you into the book, the colorful and imaginative illustrations keep you lingering on each page as you explore with your child the ideas that lay behind each verse.
A Spirited Alphabet is the second collaboration of Frank Riccio and Morgan Simone Daleo, following the success of Curriculum of Love, winner of both a Parents' Choice Award and a MAPA Best Inspirational Book Award; and was also a Book-of-the-Month Selected book. Those who have read and loved Neale Donald Walsch's The Little Soul and the Sun will quickly recognize the lustrous and charming illustrations of Frank Riccio. The result of their latest combined effort is a refreshingly original alphabet book that conveys concepts that cross all religious boundaries and teaches universal lessons of love and compassion. A Spirited Alphabet is a book that will be read over and over again, becoming a treasured story to be passed down from generation to generation.
53 x 7, hardcover with jacket, 32 pages, color illustrations, ISBN 1-57174-148-8, $14.95