"What letter does the word bee start with? If you said "B" you're right -- in English! But in many, many languages, it actually starts with A. Bee is An�u in Igbo, Aamoo in Ojibwe, Abelha in Portugese, and Ar� in Turkish. Come and explore the gorgeous variations in the ways we talk about familiar things, unified and illuminated through Ellen Heck's eye-catching, graphic scratchboard details and hidden letterforms."--

Examines the history and lore of soccer from A for a game played "all over the world" to Z for "Zinedine Zidane," a French star named the world's best.

"The NATO phonetic alphabet, or more accurately, the International Radiotelephany Spelling Alphabet is used by various emergency services ...as a way to communicate clearly and precisely in urgent situations."

Presents the handshape for each letter of the American manual alphabet accompanied by an object whose name begins with that letter.

Zany descriptions of each letter of the alphabet.

An alphabet book with fantastic and detailed pictures, bearing such labels as "Lazy lions lounging in the local library."

A pictorial vocabulary book with words grouped under common activities such as mealtime and basic concepts such as weather.

Before the alphabet was invented, life was very orderly though not so exciting until five friends set out to create something new.