Twenty six letters, one dotted trail at a time. Each scene sets the letter inside a picture the child also traces, so an A comes with an ant to follow and a K comes with a koala and a kite, and the hand learns the shape before the head is asked to name it.

The pages are coated, and a wipe-clean pen is mounted on the front cover, so the same page can be done, wiped and done again. That is the difference between a workbook a child finishes once and a book that survives a whole preschool year.

Jessica Greenwell wrote it, Stacey Lamb drew it, and the last spread is the full alphabet in upper and lower case to trace end to end. Twenty four pages at 214.5 x 277.0 mm.

Also on the shelf here: Wipe-Clean Airport Activities, twenty four wipe-clean pages of dot to dots, mazes, matching and spot the difference set across one busy airport, with the pen on the cover.