Campbell Kids Alphabet Soup: An ABC Book

. ABRAMS, $10.95 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-8109-5041-2

Campbell Kids Alphabet Soup: An ABC Book ladels out early 20th-century advertising illustrations. The rosy-cheeked youngsters appear alongside letter-appropriate objects and apparel, accompanied by rhymed stanzas: ""H begins house and a harp that we play, / I goes with ice-skating, / Jumprope with J."" The elegantly-packaged primer should resonate most with those who grew up with these pug-nosed kids. .

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