Developed for students in kindergarten through second grade, this alphabet book is one in a series of picture dictionaries in the Pima language developed to instill pride in Pima students by presenting their language in print and to increase their vocabularies in both Pima and English. Introductory sections provide a brief history of the project and explain that the book uses spelling and symbols based on an orthography adopted by the Gila River Indian Community Tribal Council in 1979. The book begins with a display of the Pima alphabet, which uses English orthograpy plus diacritical marks for its 25 characters. Each subsequent page shows an upper and lower case letter of the Pima alphabet, a Pima word beginning with that letter, and a large and easily interpreted illustration of the word. The illustrations, while reflecting Pima culture and southwest influences, show foods, animals, and other items generally familiar to young children, e.g., chair, corn, orange, saddle, sun, skunk, broom, deer, and key. (JHZ)