A Is for Salad by Mike Lester is not your typical alphabet book. Instead of each page stating the letter stands for a word beginning with the same letter, there is a mix-up. The illustrations are used to find the object that begins with the letter. For example, A is for salad has a picture of an alligator eating salad. The challenge for children is to determine what in the picture is related to the letter (
A is related to
Alligator). One funny part in the book is the page with the letters X and Y. #BookADay52