From Alexander Anteater to Zachary Zebra, it’s one adventure after another for Alpha Betty’s students. Get to know these zany characters as they find new friends, test their talents, go on exciting explorations, and have a rip-roaring, super-sensational, totally tremendous good time!

Each book in Animal Antics A to Z:

• Tells a humorous story children will relate to and want to hear again and again
• Focuses on a single letter sound (phoneme)
• Offers numerous opportunities for children to practice finding the phoneme at the beginning, middle, and end of many words
• Includes a fun activity to stimulate children’s curiosity

Barbara deRubertis has written more than 50 books for children, including Kane Press’s popular Let’s Read Together® series, about which School Library Journal wrote: Story lines are silly and inventive, and recall Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat for the building of rhyming words.

Award-winning artist R.W. Alley has illustrated over 100 books for children. He is best known for the Paddington Bear series by Michael Bond, Because Your Daddy Loves You by Andrew Clements, Tiger Can’t Sleep by S.J. Fore, and There’s a Wolf at the Door by Zoe Alley (Booklist Starred Review, NCTE Notable Children’s Book). He has received numerous starred reviews and awards for his works, including a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award for Pearl and Wagner: One Funny Day by Kate McMullan.