Page 3 - My FlipBook

Curated by Ryan Somma

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This book is another tool in the myriad strategies we parents use to teach our children. The ebook format

allows something print books don't: an alphabet book with 10 examples of each letter. This means there are
260 images in this book. That can be quite overwhelming, but that's nothing compared to the Earth's actual

biodiversity.

There are a lot of ways you can read this book with your children. You can pick a letter to more deeply

immerse in for a sitting. You can read through the pages and slides quickly, enjoying the occasional
alliterations and novel syllable sounds. You can pick an animal as a launching point for further exploration. Or

you could even download the source files and add/remove organisms to your liking. Teaching should be
about parents having fun as much as children. Have fun with it.

This book was curated entirely out of my gut-feelings. Organisms were added and removed based on their
novelty, sounds in their names, and availability. You'll notice that some letters get a little erudite, resorting to

taxonomy names and overly-exotic name to reach 10 example. I apologize for that, but it's also an
opportunity for readers to quest for more organisms themselves.

The "by Ryan Somma" in this book is quite the overstatement. All I have done is to compile the photographs
of generous flickr users who have licensed their work Creative Commons, allowing me to use them in this

book under the conditions that I provide credit and not ask for payment. This book is free for you to use, the
Power Point File is available at my website for you to take and modify, and links to all original photos are
provided in the back of the book. Please respect the licenses as they are listed on their source-pages.

Most of all: Enjoy!