Spoof the family dog loves children Join him on a fun-filled, A to Z adventure to help every child learn the ABCs in English and Spanish, too

Silly ABC'S is a fun way to share the alphabet with your little ones. The words and pictures will give you both something to laugh about and discuss every time you read it together. Who wouldn't love a giraffe dressed as a clown or a violin playing a kazoo? Silly ABC's makes learning enjoyable.

In early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. Patrick Erben challenges the long-standing historical myth--first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin--that language diversity posed a threat to communal coherence. He deftly traces the pansophist and Neoplatonist philosophies of European reformers that informed the radical English and German Protestants who founded the ""holy experiment."" Their belief in hidden yet persistent links between human language and the word of God impelled their vision of a common spiritual idiom. Translation became the search for underlying correspondences between diverse human expressions of the divine and served as a model for reconciliation and inclusiveness. Drawing on German and English archival sources, Erben examines iconic translations that engendered community in colonial Pennsylvania, including William Penn's translingual promotional literature, Francis Daniel Pastorius's multilingual poetics, Ephrata's ""angelic"" singing and transcendent calligraphy, the Moravians' polyglot missions, and the common language of suffering for peace among Quakers, Pietists, and Mennonites. By revealing a mystical quest for unity, Erben presents a compelling counternarrative to monolingualism and Enlightenment empiricism in eighteenth-century America.

The Atlantic Alphabet Beach Song Imagination and language are important ingredients for feeling good ourselves. The Atlantic Alphabet Beach Song encourages children to enjoy hearing sounds, listening to rhythm and rhyme, and along the way, learn some new words. For fun, read this book out loud and see how many words fit into the alphabet. Phyllis Levine's other books include Small Pleasures, a poetry book that views nature in its many forms, and an inspirational fiction novel, titled Matilda. The Matilda series continues with At the Skylight with Matilda, Matilda's Way and What's up Matilda? Another novel is presently in progress and sure to be enjoyed by readers of all ages.