My ABC America by Olya Ratnikova & Irina Lisichkina – The Strawberry Post

A book review of a fun children’s picture book helping young kids learn their ABC with words about America.

About My ABC America

Title: My ABC America
Author: Olya Ratnikova
Illustrator: Irina Lisichkina
Publisher: Independently published
Genre: Young children’s picture book, Learning – alphabet
Book format reviewed: Paperback
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Description:  A joyful ABC journey through the places, animals, and everyday wonders that make America home.

*Free copy provided by author for review…

My review and thoughts on My ABC America

This is a fun picture book teaching kids their ABCs through words that are all related to America in some way. This paperback is filled with some lovely illustrations and a little text. Beginning with some fun end pages showing some fireworks, the rest of the book has a letter of the alphabet shown on each page along with a word beginning with that letter. All of the words are ones you’d associate with America and there are some interesting things for children to learn too.

Rather than simple ABC words like: apple, book, cat, etc. I like this book as it’s something different and has American related words like American flag, Buffalo, Cowboy, Donuts, etc. Along with each word is a lovely illustration showing that item and there’s also a sentence explaining more about that item too, for example the page with Donuts tells you when National Donut Day is, or the page about Key West says more about this area. I really love the fact that you get some added facts about each part of America, it makes learning the different words in the alphabet all the more interesting and fun. This is also helped by the lovely illustrations.

Every page has some fun illustrations to accompany each letter of the alphabet and American word. I do like how vivid the colours are and how detailed some of the images are too. The pictures have lots of detail and everyone and everything looks so happy and fun. It really helps you understand the words in the ABC better too. Overall I really like this book and it’s an interesting twist on the usual ABC books you see out there. A wonderful book for anyone, but especially those who want to help kids learn their ABCs while learning more about America, and a great accompaniment to My Florida ABC too.

Other books by Olya Ratnikova

-Read review – The Giant Carrot by Olya Ratnikova & Irina Lisichkina
-Read review – My Florida ABC by Olya Ratnikova & Irina Lisichkina
-Read review – ABC by Olya Ratnikova & Julia Belenkova (Rick and Dan: The Secrets of Smart Behaviour)
-Read review – Rick and Dan: The Secrets of Smart Behaviour – Fire Safety Basics by Olya Ratnikova & Julia Belenkova (Rick and Dan: The Secrets of Smart Behaviour #2)
-Read review – Rick and Dan: The Secrets of Smart Behaviour – Road Academy by Olya Ratnikova & Julia Belenkova (Rick and Dan The Secrets of Smart Behaviour #1)

Other books teaching your children ABC and more

-Read review – My First Colours by Shirley Hughes
-Read review – The Shirley Hughes Treasury: Nursery Rhymes, Poems and Stories for the Very Young by Shirley Hughes
-Read review – All Around Me: A First Book of Childhood by Shirley Hughes
-Read review – ABC Cats by Lesléa Newman & Isabella Kung

What do you think of this book?  What ABC books would you recommend?  Let me know what you think in the comments below 🙂