READ ANYTHING GOOD LATELY?

A child’s question prompts another’s alphabetic reverie in this invitation to consider the many things and places to read: an atlas at the airport, a biography in bed, a gossip magazine in the grocery line, and on up to a zodiac (i.e., horoscope) at the zoo. The authors give non-paper media a nod, too, with information on the Internet, and leave the exercise open-ended with a closing list of additional types of reading material for readers to match with locations. In page-sized cartoons, Enright follows her smiling young bookworm from place to place, showing her reading alone and with company, indoors and out, up a tree, even in a Jacuzzi. Serving as a reminder to parents too, that reading opportunities are all around, this presents an engaging literary game likely to continue well beyond one pass through the ABCs. (Picture book. 5-7)