- a thief systematically (alphabetically) steals the letters of the alphabet, which turns words into new ones
- examples: bowls to owls, chair to hair, beard to bear
- convo: beer & wine mentioned, one illustration shows a naked man (a hat covering private area), pipe in one illustration, witches mentioned & depicted, hex attempt
Type: picture book
Ages: 5-8
Author: Bill Richardson
Illustrator: Roxanna Bikadoroff
If you love books about words and plays on words, you might consider checking this out, assuming you read the caveats above. For us, what began as clever and hilarious became rather tedious by the end. The rhymes were fantastic and read aloud well, but the book was just too long. The end seemed to fall flat, too, and the illustrations were hit or miss.
As always, I remind myself that real humans spent a lot of time writing and illustrating this book, but it just wasn’t for us. Maybe it will be for you?