down and made of concrete. That's from writer and illustrator Oliver Jeffers' new kids' book, Once Upon an Alphabet: Short Stories for all the Letters. The story ends with Cup broken on the kitchen ...

Sam and Dave are a couple of explorers with rotten luck. The determined diggers will not stop until they find something spectacular, yet page after page they come up (just inches!) too short. Deadpan ...

With wry humor, equally droll ink illustrations, and a solid dose of alliteration, Jeffers (the Hueys series) creates delightful mini-narratives for each letter of the alphabet. In the B story, ...