In Claudia Villarreal’s The Alphabet Thief Who Stole the Vowels, a mischievous Alphabet Thief concocts a devious plan to steal vowels from the world! Imagine a world without vowels! How would children learn to read? How would adults communicate? Written in a style like Dr. Suess and beautifully illustrated by Michael Koch, Claudia Villarreal creates a fun and inventive way for children to grasp the importance of learning vowels as a valuable tool in literacy. At an early age, Claudia fell in love with reading, and her fondest memory was of her fourth-grade teacher reading Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and SuperFudge every day after lunch. Using her expertise as a former classroom teacher, Claudia shares her love of reading by teaching young children the building blocks of literary – learning vowels!