This is an unusual alphabet book with a playful gimmick: each letter is represented by a word that contains, within it, the word "ant." Hence, the title, Antics. Many of the words will be unfamiliar to children, but the funny pictures will certainly intrigue them and the resulting questions will lead to great coversations between adult and child - the kind of conversations that make new words memorable and useful to them. There is a leather-jacket-clad, green-mohawked ant for the letter "D," deviAnt. "I" is for ImmigrAnts, accompanied by a family of ants who look as if they are preparing to disembark from an Ellis-Island-era ship. HesitAnt is represented by an ant clinging to the railing of a high dive -- what kid won't immediately understand what that word means! And there's JubilAnt, ObservAnt, NonchalAnt, XAnthophile, QuarAntine, FlamboyAnt, even KAnt and RembrAnt. It's fun, smart and a great vocabulary builder.

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