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alphabet Quotes

23 of the best book quotes about alphabet
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“Mamas and papas and uncles and aunts hug their little dears, then dust their pants.”
Bill Martin Jr.
John Archambault
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
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children
mothers
fathers
taking care of others
alphabet
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“The whole alphabet up the- Oh, no!”
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″ A is out of bed, and this is what he said: ‘Dare double dare, you can’t catch me. I’ll beat you to the top of the coconut tree.’ ”
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″ J and K are about to cry.”
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″ ‘Whew’ said D to E F G. ‘I’ll beat you to the top of the coconut tree.’ ”
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″ Next from the pileup skinned-knee D and stubbed-toe E and patched up F. ”
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“Chicka Chicka boom boom! Will there be enough room?”
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″ Skit skat skoodle doot. Flip flop flee. Everybody running to the coconut tree.”
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″ Look who’s coming! It’s black-eyed P, Q R S, and loose-tooth T.”
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“A told B, and B told C, ‘I’ll meet you at the top of the coconut tree.’ ”
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″‘This is interesting-very interesting-something quite new. Give me the Bird’s A.B.C first-slowly now.’ So that was the way the Doctor came to know that animals had a language of their own and could talk to one another.”
Doctor John Dolittle
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“I guess the old alphabet isn’t enough!”
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“My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!”
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“So, on beyond Zebra! Explore! Like Columbus! Discover new letters! Like WUM is for Wumbus.
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“You’ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around!
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“So you see! There’s no end to the things you might know, depending how far beyond Zebra you go!”
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“I know all the twenty-six letters like that through to Z is for Zebra. I know them all well. So not I know everything anyone knows from beginning to end. From the start to the close. Because Z is as far as the alphabet goes.”
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“Now the letters he uses are something to see! Most people still top at the Z... But not HE!”
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“My alphabet starts with this letter called YUZZ. Its the letter I use to spell Yuzz-a-ma-Tuzz.”
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“You can stop, if you want, with the Z because most people stop with Z. But not me! In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.”
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″ ‘S is for sailboat. T is for tiger. U is for underwear, down in the drier…’ Frances stopped because ‘drier’ did not sound like ‘tiger’. She started to think about tigers. She thought about big tigers and little tigers, baby tigers and mother and father tigers, sister tigers and brother tigers, aunt tigers and uncle tigers.”
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“She closed her eyes, but she still could not sleep. So she began to sing a little song about the alphabet. She made it up as she went along.”
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“All his classmates envied him his ink because it was so bright and pretty, with sepia tone none of them had ever seen before. However, the boy learned a strange alphabet that no one else understood and he had to leave the school because the teacher said he was setting a bad example.”

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