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THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS: HERE COME THE ABCS This Brooklyn duo's work for adults is arty and wacky--think Spike Jones with an M.F.A. degree. And TMBG's album of alphabet songs is, well, pretty much the same. The loopy tracks--26 of 'em, of course--include the delicately pretty C Is for Conifers, the funk meltdown E Eats Everything and I C U, very likely the first-ever country ballad composed entirely of letters that sound like words ("I C U/ I C U/ N U R O K"). U R O.K. 2, TMBG...
...counterstrike swiftly followed. The competing commercial showed a small carrottop boy playing with wooden alphabet blocks that spell Star Wars; he is vainly trying to arrange them to spell Peace Shield. A portentous voice intones, "Matthew's learning what adults already know: when someone wants to mislead you, they try to change the name." Then, an epiphany: "I got it!" Matthew says. "Space Wars...
...behold, such as it is in no wise fit for mortal men to bear, but for the deathless gods." With little else to go on, historians have tended to rely on ancient Greek depictions of the Thracians as a savage, tribal society that had no politics and no alphabet of its own. But after three months of digging, Kitov surfaced with over 130 pieces of magnificent jewelry, weaponry and ritual artifacts that show Thracian culture rivaled that of the Greeks. They prove that the Thracians were "not a society of barbarians," says Alexander Fol, a Bulgarian expert on Thracian history...
...Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Book...
This suede-wrapped Compact Drawing Set, $32 at flaxart.com comes in a palette of colors. The site also boasts art supplies galore, and plenty of kids' gifts, like the alphabet zoo puzzle and Noah...