This book has a rhyming pattern and goes through the entire alphabet. Each page represents a letter that has something to do with the military. On the sides there are also fun facts that go into more detail on what the page was about. I think this book would be good for teaching rhyme to older children as well as helping them to learn about the sacrifices military members and their families make when it is around the time of a military holiday. I would personally use this book in a third through fifth grade classroom. After doing a shared reading of the book I would do activities with it that would include students choosing to research a specific branch and having students write letters to members of the military. I think this book would go great with teaching the process of researching as well as the process of writing a letter. I think this book would also help children understand what their classmates who have military parents have to go through. I would use it for students in second through fifth grade.

This is a great book that can be used for more than one purpose. The main idea of this text is the military. However, it also includes the letters of the alphabet. Each letter of the alphabet represents an aspect of the military. Each page provides information on the different branches of the military and the history behind them. There is also a little story that goes along with the alphabet to make it interesting for students. ( )

My personal response to the book: The book is great and brings the military to primary children when they are learning the alphabet. I would like to have this book added to the school's collection. Any military based primary school should have this book in their library's collection.
Curricular connections: The curricular connections include military and teaching the alphabet. A primary educator could readily use this book when teaching the alphabet. There is so much possibility and discussion following the viewing of this book.

An alphabet book that talks about all of the branches in the military. It gives vivid descriptions.

This book is a bit one sided in its explanation of the American Military, but this is to be expected in a children's book. It does a wonderful job of discussing the more admirable aspects of the military and military life and is very informative regarding certain aspects of the military. The book, especially in the poetry sections, makes various generalizations that give the reader a glimpse, however one-sided, into the mind of someone in the military. ( )