Barney's Alphabet Soup (Barney)

This book is filled with vibrant pictures of Barney putting items in a large soup pot. I love that the last page includes all of the letters of the alphabet with upper and lowercase letters. Now for the reviews that are caught up on the X for eXtra sharp cheese. The page clearly has the letter X in the word eXtra highlighted in purple just like the first letters in the other words. When teaching letters the rule doesn't have to be that the item starts with that letter. The author just tried to be creative. Any of you know a fruit or food item that starts with X? We didn't want Barney throwing a nonfood item like a xylophone in the soup, right? Here is a detailed list of the letters and items used in Barney's soup:A- appleB- bananaC- carrotD- doughnutsE- eggsF- fishG- grapesH- hot dogsI- ice creamJ- jellyK- ketchupL- lemonsM- milkN- noodlesO- onionsP- popsicleQ- quicheR- radishesS- squashT- tomatoesU- unsweetened chocolateV- vegetable juiceW- watermelonX- extra sharp cheeseY- yogurtZ- zucchini

Love this book for my classroom.

My son has cerebral palsy and reads many books. He mainly likes older books like Barneys Alphabet soup. The condition of this book was great. Its great to see what great shape the book is in considering how old this book is. He has been reading it for years now. Thank you so much. Anita

Nice

this is a cute book. My two year old got more than half of the "ingredients" right. She loves this book.

This very simple book is a great way for young children to learn their ABC's. An actual photo of Barney, not an illustration, appears on every page facing the alphabet letters. My 2-year old loves it.

Since my child loves Barney I bought several of these board books and although most of them are pretty good this one misses the boat a bit on the choices it makes in teaching children. Like the one other reviewer stated, they do use X-tra Sharp Cheese as the example for the letter X. And then there is the letter U, usually you find an umbrella or some other appropriate word, but here you'll find U stands for Unsweetened Chocolate! In a book where A is for Apple, B is for banana, etc.. it's perplexing why the author made those choices in teaching young kids the alphabet.

This book really helped my daughter recognize and learn not only her alphabet, but new foods! It helped make food shopping fun! She loves looking for squash, radishes and zucchini... now if I can only get her to eat them :-)Anyway, so what if they used Extra sharp cheddar as the X food - it's still a sweet, endearing book with delicious pictures!

barney好きな娘が喜んで読んでます。A～Ｚの色々な食材！？のスープができます。4歳の娘は、これを真似してアルファベットスープ作りごっこをしてます