{"id":41999,"date":"2025-03-19T23:22:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T03:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=41999"},"modified":"2025-03-19T23:22:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T03:22:45","slug":"review-of-a-is-for-bee-by-ellen-heck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=41999","title":{"rendered":"Review of A Is For Bee, by Ellen Heck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a_is_for_bee_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a_is_for_bee_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45027\" \/><\/a><em>A Is for Bee<\/p>\n<p>An Alphabet Book in Translation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Ellen Heck<\/p>\n<p>Levine Querido, 2022.  36 pages.<br \/>\nReview written December 13, 2022, from a library book<br \/>\nStarred Review<\/p>\n<p>This book is creative and fascinating &#8212; though you&#8217;ll want to show it to older kids, who already know their English alphabet well, so they don&#8217;t get confused.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction is simple:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We speak to each other in many languages, and in some of them&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then it goes right into an Alphabet book.  The order is A to Z, and many of the animals you&#8217;re used to see in alphabet books appear, but now they show up in different places.<\/p>\n<p>On the first page, we&#8217;ve got:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A is for BEE<\/p>\n<p>Anu in Igbo<br \/>\nArl in Turkish<br \/>\nAamoo in Ojibwe<br \/>\nAbelha in Portuguese<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s extended back matter, explaining the difficulties of translation and the Romanization of different alphabets.  69 languages are represented in this book, which they note is a small fraction of the more than 6,500 spoken across the world.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve got a QR code you can scan to get to this page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.levinequerido.com\/aisforbee\">levinequerido.com\/AIsforBee<\/a> and hear the words spoken aloud.  I had a lot of fun exploring there.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t really a book for learning other languages, but it&#8217;s a beautiful book for delighting in the variety of human expression and for children to get an idea of the many amazing ways people speak.<\/p>\n<p>The book goes from A is for Bee to Z is for Elephant, with delightful variety in between.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.levinequerido.com\/aisforbee\">levinequerido.com\/AIsforBee<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/164614127X\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/a_is_for_bee.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/a_is_for_bee.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Is for Bee An Alphabet Book in Translation by Ellen Heck Levine Querido, 2022. 36 pages. 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