L is for Library: Solution
By Erin Price
Answer:
OCELOT
Each image is taken from a children’s alphabet book. The letters for each page spell out SORT BY DATE USE SURNAMES. The flavor text, “Baby’s first good reads”, clues you to use Goodreads to find the first available publication date for each book. Sorting by the publication date and indexing into the authors’ last names by the page number on each image yields BIG CATS SMALL CATS OSCAR. The O page in Big Cats, Small Cats, by Calvin Smith, is OCELOT.
| Page | Title | Author | Index | Letter | Pub. Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPACE CAPSULE | ABCs on Wings | Olivera, Ramon | 1 | O |
7/21/2015 |
| OSCAR | Alpha | Arsenault, Isabelle | 3 | S |
8/25/2015 |
| RAVEN | Alphabet Bird Collection | Ogilvy, Shelli | 4 | L |
4/25/2009 |
| TIGER | Alphabet Soup: A Feast of Letters | Gustafson, Scott | 1 | G |
1/9/1990 |
| BALLOONS | Alphablock | Franceschelli, Christopher | 5 | C |
8/6/2013 |
| YAK | Alphamals: A to Z | Carter, Graham | 3 | R |
10/3/2017 |
| DOGS, DOCTOR, DUCK | Babar’s ABC | Brunhoff, Laurent | 1 | B |
1/1/1983 |
| A | Chicka Chicka Boom Boom | Martin, Jr., Bill | 5 | I |
1/1/1989 |
| T-SHIRT | D is for Dress-Up: The ABC’s of What We Wear | Carluccio, Maria | 1 | C |
4/5/2016 |
| EARWIG | Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet | McLimans, David | 1 | M |
9/5/2006 |
| UNITED NATIONS | Journey Around New York From A to Z | Zschock, Martha | 2 | S |
5/1/2002 |
| SIT STILL, MAX | Max’s ABC | Wells, Rosemary | 5 | S |
5/4/2006 |
| ELEPHANT | Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten | Slate, Joseph | 4 | T |
9/1/1996 |
| SLICED SALAMI | Old Black Fly | Aylesworth, Jim | 1 | A |
4/15/1992 |
| UNICYCLE | Olivia’s ABC | Falconer, Ian | 2 | A |
8/26/2014 |
| RABBIT | Paul Thurlby’s Alphabet | Thurlby, Paul | 5 | L |
7/1/2011 |
| NEWSPAPER | Pinkalicious ABC: An Alphabet Book | Kann, Victoria | 2 | A |
5/24/2016 |
| ACORNS, ALLIGATOR | R is for Rocket: An ABC Book | Hills, Tad | 5 | S |
7/7/2015 |
| MAIL TRUCK | Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks From A to Z | Scarry, Richard | 2 | C |
10/3/1990 |
| EDMONTONOSAURUS | Robert Crowther’s Pop-Up Dinosaur ABC | Crowther, Robert | 5 | T |
1/27/2015 |
| SKULL WITH SMILE | The Dangerous Alphabet | Gaiman, Neil | 2 | A |
4/29/2008 |