Book excerpt: Wonderful English is a comprehensive tool for the identification and practice of common English sounds. It covers consonants, vowels, diphthongs and common consonant blends, with engaging tongue twisters, rhyme, song and alliterative verse. It also assists teachers in exploring common culture, values and experience, which is usually encountered and consolidated in child-hood. The book is designed for use by ESL teachers. It is suitable for both beginning and advanced stu-dents. Primary teachers, as well as teachers of elementary phonics, speech therapy and drama, likewise, will find it an enjoyable and useful reference work. Parents of young children may also find it useful.