The Letter People are personified versions of the 26 alphabet letters. Each character has a distinct characteristic to help beginning readers sound out the consonants and vowels that form letters.
Original Version (1968 - 1996)[]
Alpha One (1968 - 1996)[]
A'choo
Beautiful Buttons
Cotton Candy
Delicious Donuts
Exercise
Funny Feet
Gooey Gum*
Gooey Gum
Horrible Hair
Itchy Itch/Itchy
Incredible Inventor*
Jumbled Junk
Kicking King
Lemon Lollipops
Munching Mouth
Noisy Nose
Optimistic Optimist
Pointy Patches
Quiet
Ripping Rubber Bands
Ripping Rubber Bands*
Super Socks
Tall Teeth
Upsy-Daisey Umbrella
Upsy-Daisey Umbrella*
Violet Velvet Vest
Wonderful Wink
Mixed Up/All Wrong
Yawning
Zipping Zippers
Alpha Time (1974 - 1996)[]
A'choo
Beautiful Buttons
Cotton Candy
Delicious Donuts
Exercise
Funny Feet
Gooey Gum
Horrible Hair
Incredible Inventor
Jumbled Junk
Kicking
Lemon Lollipops
Munching Mouth
Noisy Nose
Optimistic Optimist
Pointy Patches
Quiet
Ripping Rubber Bands
Super Socks
Tall Teeth
Umbrella
Violet Velvet Vest
Winking
Mixed Up/All Wrong
Yawning
Zipping Zippers
- Note: Characters with the symbol * after their name means that the character is a updated characteristic/design.
The Letter People (1981 - 1996)[]
A'choo
Beautiful Buttons
Cotton Candy
Delicious Doughnuts
Exercise
Funny Feet
Gooey Gum
Horrible Hair
Incredible Inventor
Jumbled Junk
Kicking
Lemon Lollipops
Munching Mouth
Noisy Nose
Optimistic Optimist
Pointy Patches
Quiet
Ripping Rubberbands
Super Socks
Tall Teeth
Upsy-Daisy Umbrella
Violet Velvet Vest
Wonderful Wink
All Wrong
Yawning
Zipping Zippers
Newer Version (1996 - 2024)[]
A'choo
Beautiful Buttons
Colossal Cap
Dazzling Dance
Exercise Energy
Funny Feet
Gooey Gum
Happy Hair
Impossible Inches
Jingle Jingle Jacket
Kaboom Kick
Longest Laugh
Munching Mouth
Noisy Nose
Opposite
Pointy Patches
Questions
Rainbow Ribbons
Super Socks
Tall Teeth
Unusual Umbrella
Vegetable Vest
Wonderful Words
Different
Yodeling Yawn
Zipping Zippers
- Note: The characteristic of Mr. Q changed from "Quiet Questions" to just "Questions" to teach children that keeping your questions "quiet" will not answer them