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The racecar alphabet
Floca, Brian.
An exciting day at the races highlights the letters of the alphabet as a variety of automobiles burn fuel speeding through the curves of the track.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers,
Pub date: c2003.
Pages: 1 v. (unpaged) :
ISBN: 0689850913
Item info: 23 copies available at Main Library, Anderson, Bond Hill, Cheviot, Corryville, Covedale, Deer Park, Elmwood Place, Forest Park, Green Township, Hyde Park, Madeira, Mariemont, Monfort Heights, Mt. Healthy, North Central, Northside, Norwood, St. Bernard, Walnut Hills, and Wyoming.
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Easy 1 Juvenile Book Concepts: ABC, Counting, Colors, etc
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Easy 1 Juvenile Book Concepts: ABC, Counting, Colors, etc
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Easy 1 Juvenile Book Concepts: ABC, Counting, Colors, etc
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Easy 1 Juvenile Book Concepts: ABC, Counting, Colors, etc
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Easy 1 Juvenile Book Easy Books
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Easy 1 Juvenile Book Checked Out
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Easy 1 Juvenile Book Concepts: ABC, Counting, Colors, etc
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Easy 1 Juvenile Book Easy Books
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Easy 1 Juvenile Book Concepts: ABC, Counting, Colors, etc
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Easy 2 Juvenile Book Concepts: ABC, Counting, Colors, etc
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Easy 1 Juvenile Book Concepts: ABC, Counting, Colors, etc
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Easy 1 Juvenile Book Concepts: ABC, Counting, Colors, etc
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Easy 1 Juvenile Book Checked Out
  1 Juvenile Book Easy Books
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Easy 1 Juvenile Book Concepts: ABC, Counting, Colors, etc
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Easy 1 Juvenile Book Checked Out
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Easy 3 Juvenile Book Checked Out
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Easy 1 Juvenile Book Checked Out
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Easy 1 Juvenile Book Checked Out
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The racecar alphabet
Floca, Brian.

Summary

An exciting day at the races highlights the letters of the alphabet as a variety of automobiles burn fuel speeding through the curves of the track. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Publishers Weekly Review

Floca (Five Trucks) brings a whole new meaning to the term "accelerated learning" with this journey through the alphabet, framed as a history of the race car. Although his alliterative text doesn't always possess the purr of a high performance engine ("Curves across the course cause cars to careen and to crowd and come close to colliding"), his crisp watercolor-and-ink spreads never reduce their speed. Starting with the primitive Renaults and Fords at the turn of the 20th century and ending with a streamlined Ferrari Formula 1 of today, Floca zooms the vehicles around the many locales of racing, from the Indy-style oval tracks to the challenging road courses common to Europe. He consistently finds the most dramatic angle, whether a close-up of a 1962 Lotus 25 driver straining against g-forces, or the head-on view of a 1940 BMW 328 as it bears down on the track (all makes are identified on the endpapers). Sidestepping racing's gorier side (the crashes depicted are casualty-free, and "X" depicts the X-ray of a racer's relatively minor leg break), he captures both the blur of action and the meticulous details so important to young fans. Ages 4-7. (Nov.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From: Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright Reed Business Information
The racecar alphabet
Floca, Brian.
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Leader: am aep
Key: OC 04803169
Data source: OC
Fixed field data: 020221s2003 nyua b 000 1 eng
LCCN: 2002002198
ISBN: 0689850913
Local system #: (OCoLC)49326790
Cataloging source: DLC DLC IG#
Local holdings: OCPP
LC Call Number: PZ7.F6579 Rac 2003
DDC class no.: [E] 21
Local DDC call #: Easy
Personal name: Floca, Brian.
Title: The racecar alphabet / by Brian Floca.
Variant title: Race car alphabet
Edition: 1st ed.
Publication info: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2003.
Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
General note: "A Richard Jackson book."
Summary: An exciting day at the races highlights the letters of the alphabet as a variety of automobiles burn fuel speeding through the curves of the track.
Audience: Ages 4-7.
Held by: MAIN ANDERSON AVONDALE BLUE_ASH BOND_HILL CHEVIOT CLIFTON COLL_HILL CORRYVILLE COVEDALE DEER_PARK ELMWOOD_PL FOREST_PRK GREEN_TWP GROESBECK HYDE_PARK LOVELAND MADEIRA MARIEMONT MONFRT_HTS MTHEALTHY NRCENTRAL NRSIDE NORWOOD OAKLEY PLSNT_RDGE PRICE_HILL STBERNARD SHARONVLLE WALNUT_HLS WEST_END WYOMING OUTREACH
Topical subject: Automobile racing--Juvenile fiction.
Topical subject: Automobiles, Racing--Juvenile fiction.
Topical subject: Automobiles--Juvenile fiction.
Topical subject: Alphabet--Juvenile fiction.
OCLC-MARC processing: E0 OCP
Vendor data: Ingram INGR 0689850913