Bembo’s Zoo is a book available at Amazon. But it is also an amazing website (UPDATE: 7/13/2023 — Because this site used Flash, it is no longer available, but you can see the animations that used to be on the site in this YouTube Video) that uses flash animation to delight the viewer with animals created from the letters that spell their names. Visually, it is very appealing, and especially great for use on interactive white boards. To use it for a learning activity, you might want to try showing it to your students, and then challenging them to create their own animals out of letters. Extending further, some students might want to draw other objects using letters, or even create their own alphabet book with a different theme – such as inventions. The app for iDevices, TypeDrawing, could be used for a similar activity.
