A to Zåäö
University of Minnesota Press (Verlag)
978-1-5179-0788-4 (ISBN)
A is for “Akta dig! Look out!” And when you do, you’ll see the nyckelharpa, or keyed fiddle, that Axel’s father made—which followed Axel from Sweden to America. You’ll also find Axel, a snappy dresser, with his umbrella and bowler hat. He’s one of the inquisitive characters who will accompany you on these pages, guiding you through the twenty-nine letters of the Swedish alphabet. Each letter does something exciting. C is “Cirkulera! Go round and round!” And for D, “Dansa! Dance!”
This fun introduction to the Swedish alphabet, a romp from A to Z (and then Å to Ä to Ö), is also a delightful tour of the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, a cultural center alive with stories past and present. Artifacts from the museum’s collection are charmingly rendered in watercolor and animated by whimsical pen-and-ink characters that draw readers from page to page. Tara Sweeney and Nate Christopherson, a mother and son collaborative team, create magical realism in A to Zåäö, their first picture book. Their irreverent curiosity delights and begs a timeless question—how can exploration and discovery help us grow?
Award-winning artist, illustrator, and author Tara Sweeney received a Minnesota State Arts Board grant to co-illustrate and author A to Zåäö with her son, Nate Christopherson. She is author of Close to Home: A Minnesota Year in Sketches, a collection of illustrated creative nonfiction. She is professor emeritus at Augsburg University, where she taught drawing and painting for twenty-five years. Nate Christopherson is a special education teacher and freelance illustrator. He created art for Amy Leach’s Things That Are and a special edition of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass for the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. He received a Minnesota State Arts Board grant to illustrate The Island, an award-winning limited-edition collaborative artist book. Sweeney and Christopherson both live in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Erscheinungsdatum | 31.07.2019 |
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Zusatzinfo | 64 color plates |
Verlagsort | Minnesota |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 279 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Kunst / Musik | |
Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5179-0788-8 / 1517907888 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5179-0788-4 / 9781517907884 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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