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| | Amazon.fr : Kipper's A to Z: An Alphabet Adventure: Livres en anglais: Mick Inkpen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | In a teaser, ahead of the title page, the eponymous pooch tells a zebra, "We won't need you till much, much later." Inkpen thus signals his plans to eschew a formulaic abecedarian approach and introduces the letters in inventive ways, giving his volume a rollicking spontaneity and a story line. |
 | | In some cases, the author subtly slips the spotlighted letter into the narrative, which follows Kipper and his pig pal, Arnold, as they encounter bugs, animals and other objects, most of which Arnold places in a box (e.g., "He opened his box and put the interesting insect inside"). |
 | | You don't begin with N"); and one quite waggish omission: "Kipper couldn't think of anything beginning with K. Can you think of anything?" Yet likely the strongest selling point here is Inkpen's signature charming, childlike art, which offers endearing images of these expressive young animal characters at every turn. |
| www.amazon.fr /Kippers-Alphabet-Adventure-Mick-Inkpen/dp/0152025944 (582 words) |
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