Wild Alphabet by Dan Green, with design by Mike Haines and paper folding by Julia Frohlich, is a pop-up book of cool animals and fun information that is sure to be “pop”-ular as a gift book. 
Dan Green has chosen some common animals to highlight, like the elephant and the hippopotamus, but also a few unusual ones like the narwhal and wallaby. Each two-page spread has the name of the animal, a photograph of the animal, a few facts about the animal written in an engaging way, and then a big bold capital letter with a black-and-white image that pops up or interacts with the letter kinetically. My favorite is the dinosaur, Utahrapter, which requires you to actually open the letter to see what is underneath.
Of course this book is designed to be engaging to young children, but I noticed the older ones like to take a peek too. If nothing else they try to figure out, “how did they fold that?”
To get a better idea of the book, here’s a very well-designed trailer. Isn’t the music fun?
What child wouldn’t enjoy the thrill of Wild Alphabet?
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Hardcover: 52 pages
Publisher: Kingfisher; Pop edition (September 14, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0753464721
ISBN-13: 978-0753464724
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This book was provided for review.
This interactive alphabet book looks like a lot of fun. I think I definitely need to supervise my toddler though when we looked at it.
I know what you are saying. My boy was pretty careful with books, but we had to replace one of our favorite pop-ups due to rips and tears.