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Cover for Daytime Visions featuring an illustration of a brown bird with a beige-orange crown on its head feeding a beige-orange nest of baby birds. The branch they are sitting on is just an outline while the birds themselves are filled in. The background is white and the title is displayed in a light blue banner.

Daytime Visions: An Alphabet

By Isol, Elisa Amato and Isol (Translators)

Daytime Visions: An Alphabet. Isol. Adapted into English by Isol and Elisa Amado. Enchanted Lion Books, 2016. Originally published as Abecedario a mano in Spanish by Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, in 2015. ISBN 9781592701957. 56 p. (Ages 3-8). Picture book.

An alphabet book in name only, this playful and intriguing book hints at stories implicit in the phrases and collage art that accompany each letter. Could be used as art and story prompts in the classroom as well as for pleasure reading. Isol is an internationally recognized illustrator from Buenos Aires, having won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and been twice shortlisted for the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustrators. [ayg]

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Picture Books

Translations - Spanish

First Published - Mexico

Authors - Argentina

Illustrators - Argentina

Alphabet

Emotions

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