My sweet little toddler is now my Two (I can hardly believe it!) and talking up a storm. We love to see how much he’s absorbed what we’ve been saying to him for the first two years of his life — and also to observe what he doesn’t know. (He’s finally figured out that a cat is not a “doggie.”)
My Two loves to page through the emergent readers that I’ve created for his older brothers. They’re just the right size for his little hands. So I decided to create him his own set of little books — but instead of being sight word readers, they would be a set of simple alphabet books.
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Does this post look different than the last time you visited? The books have been updated!
Why I created these simple alphabet books:
- to create a simple library of books that my Two could call his own
- to use simple pictures – mostly photographs – that would catch his eye
- to label each picture with a single word to build his vocabulary and let him read along
- to repeat the letter on each page so that he’d start to recognize the alphabet
- to provide something special that is also replaceable – since many toddlers aren’t always kind to books.
How to use My ABC Books:
- Read them aloud to your baby or toddler.
- Let your little one handle the books himself – you can always come back and print a book that’s been torn.
- Give these to your preschooler to “read” himself. He may even start to recognize some of the words. He may also enjoy reading these to his younger sibling!
- If you’re doing a letter of the week activity in your home or classroom, print out the corresponding letter book for your child(ren).
- Give the books as a gift. While it’s against my Terms of Use to give the pdf file to someone else, you’re welcome and encouraged to print and assemble any of my printables to give as a gift. I packaged these up and mailed them to my little nephew for Christmas (just before his first birthday).
A quick video of me reading the book to my baby and toddler:
(Please note: the books have been updated, so they look slightly different than what you see in the video.)
How to assemble
- Print pages 2-5 of each book (page 1 is my Terms of Use) on medium to heavy cardstock. Be sure to print front to back.
- Cut a horizontal line across the center of each page.
- Fit the pages together, making sure the cover is on the front. The other pages can go in any order you choose.
- Staple using a long-armed stapler (they’re cheap – and totally worth it!).
- If desired, cover each book with clear contact paper to make it more durable.
Get an individual book by clicking on the link below. (Pssst… want to save yourself some time? Get all the books in a single file! Yay! Click here to learn more.)
- Letter A
- Letter B
- Letter C
- Letter D
- Letter E
- Letter F
- Letter G
- Letter H
- Letter I
- Letter J
- Letter K
- Letter L
- Letter M
- Letter N
- Letter O
- Letter P
- Letter Q
- Letter R
- Letter S
- Letter T
- Letter U
- Letter V
- Letter W
- Letter X
- Letter Y
- Letter Z
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Connie Smith says
Thank you for these! What an amazing thing for a preschool teacher and mother it find 🙂
Anna Geiger says
You’re very welcome, Connie – hope you enjoy them!
Jess says
Your site is so full of AWESOME ready to go resources. I am forever grateful!!!!
Anna Geiger says
You’re very welcome, Jess! So glad you can use them. I’ll give you an FYI that these are going to be updated soon with different covers and (in some cases) different images. Plus I hope to have them in just a few downloads instead of 26. 🙂 Stay tuned!
Julie Silva says
Thank you so very much for your wonderful resources! It is so great of you to share all of these with us…and they are very much appreciated! As I was downloading all of the alphabet books, I noticed that the Letter Q book is actually another copy of the Letter R book. Can you send me a link to download the Letter Q book, so that I can add it to my set of books I have already printed for use with one of my struggling little PK’ers?
Again, thank you so very much for all that you do and your willingness and generosity to share with us! Be blessed!
Julie Silva
PK Teacher
Wilson Elementary School
Bartlesville, OK
Anna Geiger says
Sorry about that, Julie! I fixed it, so you can get the letter Q book now.
https://www.themeasuredmom.com/simple-alphabet-books-babies-toddlers-preschoolers/
Emma says
You are fantastic! Well done! I live in Oman, in the Middle East where it is hard to come by books and activities for learning to read. Your site is awesome! Thank you!
Anna Geiger says
Thank you so much, Emma! It’s such a blessing to have the Internet, where we can share things with people all over the world!
Katie says
You are amazing. I love all of your printables and ideas. We will be following along with the letter of the week activities! I really like the variety of activities for each letter. Thank you!
Anna Geiger says
I’m so glad you’ll be following along with us, Katie! It’s so much fun to find a variety of ways to learn the alphabet. My 3 year old is always asking to do “pwojects” with me. 🙂
haiyen says
thank so much for your printables and ideas to learn, i try to teach my son learn English langue. im come from vietnam.
Anna Geiger says
I think these letter books are great for learning basic English vocabulary, Haiyen! I hope you enjoy them. 🙂
Lindi Goqo says
You’re so kind to share this beautiful information with us . God bless you .
Anna Geiger says
I hope you enjoy them, Lindi!
ayesha says
Thank you for sharing.
Anna Geiger says
You’re very welcome, Ayesha!
Anh Tran says
Thank you so much! These are amazing! I will share your page to all the teacher I know.
All the best,
Van Anh
Anna Geiger says
You’re very welcome, and thanks so much for passing on my site!
Elise says
Maybe I’m a ding a ling, but do you have a visual on how to assemble these??
Anna Geiger says
You can find one here, Elise!
https://www.themeasuredmom.com/product/my-abc-books/
asha merk says
I am not able to download the books. Can you help?
Anna Geiger says
Please click the image that says “having trouble downloading or printing” for tips!
Meena Contractor says
Hi,
This picture books are so amazing and perfect for pre school children.
Thanks for making and posting them.
Meena
Anna Geiger says
You’re very welcome, Meena!
farida says
well done great job!!we use a lot of ur resources for our kids…. I was trying to download the letter q book…their seems to be an error can you please help
Anna Geiger says
Hi Farida – did you try the tips here? https://www.themeasuredmom.com/how-to-download-free-files/ I would try the one where you right click and choose “save link as.” See if that works!
Mariana says
is it just me or do they not fold the right way from the printing. I saw you posted a “how to assemble” for someone else, and I’m still not getting it right. The pictures stay to the right and left side blank…what am I doing wrong? 🙁
either way, these books are amazing and thank you so much for sharing!
Anna Geiger says
HI Mariana!
So sorry for the delay in writnig you back here. Are you printing with Adobe Reader? It’s free, and you can get it here: https://get.adobe.com/reader/ Usually, that solves printing problems. Let me know if you still have trouble!
Marisa says
I absolutely love your site and admire all the hard work you’ve put into these learning tools. Truly amazing! My little guy is only 13 months, but I want to start him on some of these tools. I’ve printed out one page of each alphabet book and created one card for each letter (e.g., only Cc for Cow) as a start. What other tools on your site might be appropriate for his age? More generally, is there anywhere on the site where the learning tools are listed chronologically (e.g., according to learning level / age)? Thanks so much for all you do!
Anna Geiger says
Hi Marisa!
I’ve had other requests to list resources chronologically. Maybe some day I’ll be able to do that! For now, I have very little for children of your son’s age, but I do recommend all of these:
a) these letter books that you’ve already seen
b) letter books of songs and rhymes: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/free-letter-books/
c) these math activities https://www.themeasuredmom.com/baby-toddler-math-activities/,
and d) this book list, along with any other books from my lists that he’ll listen to: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/rhyming-books-for-babies/
Shelley says
OMG, these are AMAZING! What a great resource! Looking forward to working my way through these with my toddler. Thanks for making all this available, very inspirational 🙂
Anna Geiger says
You’re very welcome, Shelley! Our current 2-year-old is really enjoying these right now. 🙂
Anne says
Thank you so much for sharing these resources..It will do wonders for me and my kindergarten pupils here in the Philippines…I truly appreciated this..I’m teaching in public school and we have limited resources..I’m trying my best to provide them with materials which they can use in learning and your site is such an amazing tool to help us teachers and parents as well..Thank you and God Bless you more 🙂
Anna Geiger says
You’re very welcome, Anne – I’m so glad you can use these! My little ones have really enjoyed this set. 🙂
Lily Nguyen says
Hi,
Thank you very much for all of your materials. They help me a lot to introduce English and activities to my 2 year old son.
I cannot download alphabet books and also song of rhythm for each letter. They get something as error.
Please check your link.
Best regards,
Anna Geiger says
Hi, Lily – All the links are good, but some people run into trouble. That’s why I usually link to this page with solutions. 99% of the time, one of them works. https://www.themeasuredmom.com/how-to-download-free-files/
Amara says
Awesome!
Thanks for all the work you put into it and for sharing.
Anna Geiger says
You’re very welcome, Amara!
Lori Newton says
Wow! Thank you very much! I recently started teaching English as a Second Language to children 3-5 years old, and your site is WONDERFUL! I will be back!
Anna Geiger says
Yay – I’m so glad you found me, Lori!
Keren N Hayes says
Thank you for your generosity with your wonderful resources. I teach students with autism and love the clear, uncluttered pictures for them.
Anna Geiger says
I’m so glad to hear that these are helpful for your students, Keren!
Leo says
Thanks so much! I’m fortunate to find your web. I’m surprised by the delicate photo of each alphabet. I’m sure it will attract my son deeply.
Anna Geiger says
I’m so glad you can use my resources with your son, Leo!
Rebecca M says
Hi there Anna,
Just curious if your ABC books are available in B&W. I am interested in having my preschoolers colour the images.
Anna Geiger says
No – these are real images, so it’s impossible to get them in blackline like you can with clip art.
Sydney says
These are amazing! I’m about to start more formal teaching with my 2-year-old. He already knows most of his letters but gets some confused. The word associations will be a great help, I think. Thanks for all the hard work you did on these. It really shows!
Anna G says
You’re very welcome, Sydney! I’m so glad you like them!
Stephanie says
Thank you so much for making these free. These have really come in handy teaching my toddler the letter of the week. Thanks again and God bless!
Anna G says
I’m so glad to hear that, Stephanie!
Sheri says
I was on Google looking for alphabet books for toddlers and this came up. It was exactly what I wanted and more. Thank you so much for sharing this, I really appreciate it!!
Anna G says
You’re very welcome, Sheri!
mary ann gamayot says
thank you !!!
a big help to me
Anna G says
You’re welcome, Mary Ann!