The Racecar Alphabet

The Racecar Alphabet by Brian Floca, Antheneum Books for Young Readers, 2003.

This larger than life ABC book takes readers through the alphabet with words related to cars racing. We travel back in time and with each turn of the page enter another age of car racing, beginning with a Ford 1901 and ending with a Ferrari in 2001. Zooming, jarring, colliding, and daring drivers are sure to please little boys.

The Violin: Poem

The Violin

The little dwelling called a violin,

Is fashioned with a single room within;

So empty does it seem, and dim, and bare,

You would not look for any body there.

But if you touch a string upon the door,

A voice responds where silence was before;

And, if a friend of music you should be,

That voice is many voices instantly.

--Stephen Tracy Livingston

Folk Tales from Many Lands