John Maling

The Alphabet Menagerie John Maling

It's Really Cool for Kids to Learn about Common and Uncommon Animals!



The Alphabet Menagerie is a delightful book for young and old, entertaining and educating with humor and clever rhyme.



Kids will love "critters" like Vaquita, Xiphosuran, and Quetzal--"My name is hard, twisting tongues like a pretzel." The verses are fun to read aloud, filled with interesting descriptions about origin, history and habitat. The Moose shares--"We live in the North, where we run around loose!" And the Narwhale adds--"My horn is really a tooth--a tooth grown long."



It's Really Cool ... To Be a Penguin!



It's Really Cool ... To Be a Penguin.
We live'n in snow and ice, but we never dig in.
Our feathers keep us warm, and so very cozy,
From weather so cold and ever so "frozey."



We can't fly but we can swim and "swish."
Our wings are for swimming and for catching fish.
We slide on tummies down under the ice,
Where we swim, swoop and loop, ever so nice.







Enjoy the witty depictions. This book will fully engage the imagination over and over--each time it's read!



Jo Ann Kairys
Award-winning Children's Book Author and Illustrator
Sunbelievable and I Want Cake



"It's really cool to be a" person, to read such a creative and informative book on animals.



Dr. Lynn F. Hellerstein
Author, See. It. Say It. Do it!



The Alpha Menagerie is sure to be loved and enjoyed by children of all ages. Through illustrations and poetry, discover familiar and non- familiar animals... a quetzal, a fox, an elephant or penguin. You'll never imagine your favorite animal the same way!