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alphabet-animal books

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 25, 2003, 1:02
HiYa Peeps...

    I recall that a while back we were discussing children's books and
education that connected letters of an alphabet with animals (usual the first
lettre of the animal's name).
    I re-discovered this in one of my notebooks:

    Jane P. Marshall, review of children's books=

    "Why so many alphabet books on animals?
Probably because of zebras and zoos.
And because animals are a child's first love
besides Mom and Dad. Thanks to alphabet
books, most kids know about newts and yaks."

    [So make sure kids get animal alphabet books, go to zoos & have at least
one pet (or socio-educational "access" to other people's pets), it might make
'em less prone towards animal cruelty and *GASP!* even being serial killers,
*gigglabyte*]

Hanuman Zhang, Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist  ;) &  lingua-mang(a)leer
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