Alef-Bet A Hebrew Alphabet Book Unknown - 1992

Lothrop Lee & Shepard. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0688097251 . Clean crisp bright. No marks. One page has 1/2 inch closed tear. Dust jacket has very light edge scuffing nad 1/2 inch closed tear. In new protective cover. A creative, messy and somewhat quirky family of five fills these pages with the peculiar paraphernalia of a simplehearted existence: a feather-flying pillow fight with a sibling monster; a confettied, make-believe bridal procession; an all-out frolic in the bathtub. Although Edwards's oil pastel illustrations evoke the joie de vivre of a loving family life, no theme connects her succession of 22 unrelated Hebrew words--leaving the reader feeling uncentered. In the unexpectedly dense introductory pages, the author attempts to introduce her fictitious family with names, characters and histories. But this is misplaced in a book that tells no story but merely labels pictures with Hebrew words and first letters along with their pronunciations.… Leer más