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by Jocey Asnong (Author)
Durable board-book alphabet adventure introduces letters through mountain animals, outdoor activities and recognizable Canadian Rockies landscapes.
Children's illustrator Jocey Asnong brings the alphabet into the mountains in Rocky Mountain ABCs. Each letter becomes part of a playful outdoor scene featuring wildlife, recreation and the landscapes of western Canada.
Young readers can canoe at sunset on Lake Louise, climb snowy peaks alongside a mountain goat and learn to ski with an adventurous grizzly bear. Asnong's illustrations connect letter recognition with animals and places that children can identify and remember, giving the book value both as an early-literacy tool and as an introduction to the Canadian Rockies. The repeated association between letters, wildlife and outdoor activities gives adults several natural prompts for shared reading.
The sturdy board-book format is designed for toddlers, preschoolers and repeated family reading. Its combination of alphabet learning, mountain wildlife and outdoor adventure makes it useful for early-literacy collections, regional children's sections and Canadian Rockies gift displays.
Author Biography
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, Rocky Mountain ABCs, Rocky Mountain 123s, West Coast ABCs, West Coast 123s, Prairie ABCs, Prairie 123s, Ontario ABCs, and Explore Canada. Jocey lives on Prince Edward Island.
