FICTION

Confederate Alphabet

by Rickey E. PITTMAN
978-1-58980-760-0.
COPY ISBN
K-Gr 3—Major battles, people, and places associated with the South and the Civil War are matched with different letters of the alphabet. Ford's illustrations offer a colorful visualization of each scene and lend some life to the awkward rhyming text. The book is supplemented by a time line and the lyrics to "Dixie" and "Goober Peas" but lacks any sort of expanded glossary that would offer the necessary background material. More of a tribute to the Confederacy than a history text, this book might be useful in libraries looking for balance in collections heavy on the Union perspective.—Sarah Townsend, Norfolk Public Library, VA
Pittman takes an unreconstructed Confederate's point of view on the Civil War, using the alphabet format to celebrate its soldiers (the Fighting Tigers), landmarks (Manassas), and icons (the Rebel Yell). It's an unusual perspective, but the rhyming quatrains for each entry read as if no one even tried to speak them aloud, and the watercolor art is amateurish.
Reviewed by Sarah Townsend , Dec 01, 2011

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