Description: Paperback alphabet adventure introduces Ontario through animals, landscapes, outdoor activities and familiar regional experiences around the Great Lakes.
Jocey Asnong's Ontario ABCs turns early letter learning into a playful trip across the province. Young readers can splash in Muskoka, skate on Ottawa's Rideau Canal, help turn sap into maple syrup, share a grilled lunch with seagulls and peer through pine trees at a campsite in one of Ontario's many parks.
Asnong's colourful illustrations connect alphabet recognition with wildlife, outdoor recreation and place. The Great Lakes, forests, cities and seasonal activities give children recognizable visual cues while also introducing some of the geographic and cultural variety found across Ontario. Each page offers adults opportunities to talk about letters, animals and places during shared reading.
This paperback edition is designed for preschoolers, beginning readers and family reading. It is well suited to early-learning collections, Ontario and Canadian geography, regional gift displays and classrooms looking for an alphabet book rooted in local landscapes and experiences.
Brief description: Jocey Asnong was raised by a pack of wild pencil crayons in a house made out of paper and stories. After finishing several years of illustration school at Sheridan College, she left the land of maple trees in Ontario and moved to the mountains of Alberta so she could wear mittens most of the year. When she is not chasing her cats around her art cave, she might be caught in a blizzard near Mount Everest, or running away from wild dogs in Mongolia, or peeking out castle windows in Scotland, or sleeping under the stars in Bolivia. Jocey's books for children include Nuptse and Lhotse in Nepal (winner of a Purple Dragonfly Award), Nuptse and Lhotse Go to the Rockies, Nuptse and Lhotse Go to Iceland, Nuptse and Lhotse Go to the West Coast, Nuptse and Lhotse in the Land of the Midnight Sun, Nuptse and Lhotse Go to the Prairies, Nuptse and Lhotse in the Land of the Great Lakes, Explore Canada, Rocky Mountain ABCs, Rocky Mountain 123s, West Coast ABCs, West Coast 123s, Prairie ABCs, Prairie 123s, and Ontario ABCs. She now makes her home in Belfast, PEI.