Picture puzzles and passels of poems, armies of animals and astounding artwork... alphabet books are for more than just learning letters. Here is a small sampling:

• Arlene Alda's ABC
  Alda, Arlene
• Mouse Letters
  Arnosky, Jim
• ABC, I Like Me!
  Carlson, Nancy
• ABC Discovery!
  Cohen, Izhar
• ABC Dogs
  Darling, Kathy
• Bembo's Zoo
  De Vicq de Cumptich, Roberto
• ABC for You and Me
  Girnis, Meg
• A is for? A Photographer's
  Alphabet of Animals
  Horenstein, Henry
• Alphabet City
  Johnson, Stephen
• Aardvarks, Disembark
  Jonas, Ann
• Edward Lear's ABC:
  Alphabet Rhymes for Children
  Lear, Edward
• Alison's Zinnia
  Lobel, Anita
• V for Vanishing:
  An Alphabet of Endangered Animals
  Mullins, Patricia

• The Lion in the Lake:
  A Bilingual Alphabet Book
  Oberman, Sheldon
• Roger Tory Patterson's ABC of Birds
  Patterson, Roger Tory
• Wildflower ABC:
  An Alphabet of Potato Prints
  Pomeroy, Diana
• Ah! Belle Cite!: ABC
  (A Beautiful City: ABC)
  Poulin, Stephane
• The Handmade Alphabet
  Rankin, Laura
• Michael Rosen's ABC
  Rosen, Michael
• A Mountain Alphabet
  Ruurs, Margriet
• The Butterfly Alphabet
  Sandved, Kjell Bloch
• Tomorrow's Alphabet
  Shannon, George
• ABC
  Wegman, William
• The Disappearing Alphabet
  Wilbur, Richard
• ABC Kids
  Williams, Laura Ellen