Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, John Archambault (1991, Hardcover)

A word of warning. If you haven't a rhythmic bone in your body, you'd best not be reading "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" anytime soon. This book is very much known to be the best known alphabet book on the market today. Telling a tale of alphabetic foolhardiness, a troop of lower case letters go bounding up the nearby coconut tree for a variety of reasons. When the tree can no longer support their weight the little letters find themselves splayed out on the ground. Fortunately the big letters come along to comfort the little ones, though it's obvious by the end that not all have learned their lesson.
Verses of the letters are all intermixed. Example to follow below:

"Chicka chick boom boom!
Will there be enough room?
Here comes H
Up the coconut tree"

The text has a nice rhythym quality to it. And the illustrations, fulfill their purpose excellently. The pictures are very bright in color. Will definitely attract any chil's attention! It's a good read-aloud story for kids learning their alphabet, and would fit into any storytime excellently. A fun learning book.