{"id":46437,"date":"2026-05-19T21:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=46437"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:52:50","slug":"review-of-now-you-know-your-abcs-or-do-you-written-by-caspar-salmon-illustrated-by-matt-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=46437","title":{"rendered":"Review of Now You Know Your ABCs… (Or Do You…?) written by Caspar Salmon, illustrated by Matt Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Now You Know Your ABCs…<\/p>\n

(Or Do You…?)<\/em><\/p>\n

written by Caspar Salmon
\nillustrated by Matt Hunt<\/p>\n

Nosy Crow, 2026. 32 pages.
\nReview written April 20, 2026, from a library book.
\nStarred Review<\/p>\n

Hooray! The creators of the amazing How to Count to One (And don’t even THINK about other numbers)<\/a><\/em> have created another interactive and utterly silly parody of a basic concept book – this time taking on the alphabet.<\/p>\n

The book begins simply enough with A is for Apple, B is for Ball, and C is for Castle. But when the narrator starts in and tries to do D is for Dog – the “dog” turns out to be a wolf – a Dangerous, Dangerous wolf!<\/p>\n

So what are you to do but cry out EEEEEEEEEEK in fear and run all the way to France?<\/p>\n

The nearest French person is no help, because they do not speak your language, so you Go and seek shelter inside a tree house.<\/p>\n

The adventure that follows gets zanier and zanier as you try to outwit the wolf and get back home – all the way through the alphabet.<\/p>\n

It all adds up to an extremely silly book that begs to be read aloud, preferably with a group that indeed already knows their ABCs so they will appreciate the surprising ways each next letter is brought into the story.<\/p>\n

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Now You Know Your ABCs… (Or Do You…?) written by Caspar Salmon illustrated by Matt Hunt Nosy Crow, 2026. 32 pages. Review written April 20, 2026, from a library book. Starred Review Hooray! The creators of the amazing How to Count to One (And don’t even THINK about other numbers) have created another interactive and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delightfully-silly","category-picture-book-review","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46535,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46437\/revisions\/46535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}