cover image A Treasury of Alphabets

A Treasury of Alphabets

. Chicken House, $17.95 (92pp) ISBN 978-0-439-40433-4

Edward Lear's A Was Once an Apple Pie kicks off A Treasury of Alphabets, illus. by various artists. For example, Jan Barger illustrates ""The Shaker Abecedarius"" from The Shaker Manifesto (1882); and Lynne Chapman a section entitled ""An Alphabet of Nursery Rhymes,"" which collects Mother Goose verse alphabetized by opening lines.