There must be a hundred or more alphabet books out in circulation at all times.  An author picks a topic and then proceeds to write about said topic using each of the twenty-six letters of the alphabet usually as an individual entry. Often the letters ‘q’ and ‘x’  are quite contrived to complete the book. So what makes this book better than most? Author- Ramon Olivera’s passion for all things with wheels for one. Second, he usually has two consecutive letters in a double page spread being highlighted. Three of these pairs of letters are showing opposites: “E e is for empty.  F f is for full.” ( A man pushes his truck with the empty gas tank to the filling station where another man is filling his truck’s gas tank), “C c is for compact. D d is for double decker.” (Where  a mini-Cooper is next to a double decker bus.), AND “N n is for new. O o is for old.” ( A young man purchasing his new car is getting the keys, followed by the now old man selling the same car and handing over the keys.) The consecutive letters j and k show a tow truck taken a ‘kaput’ car to a ‘junkyard’. L and M show a presidential ‘limousine’ in a ‘motorcade’. P and q show a ‘plugged in’ electric car purring with a technician measuring how ‘quiet’ it is. The four letters t,u,v,and w take up four pages with a NASCAR theme for track, underdog, victory lane and winner. The finale comes as a yellow cab zooms off with the fare it has just picked up.

SIMPLY CLEVER from start to finish or should I say from A to Z!