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All Aboard! : a Traveling Alphabet by concept by Chris L. Demarest is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.

What is All Aboard! : a Traveling Alphabet about?

<p><P>Journey from the everyday to the exotic with this alphabet on the move. Cross the <b><b>B</b></b>-shaped arches of a bridge; land on the angled <b><b>L</b></b> of an airfield; drive over the looped <b><b>O</b></b> of an overpass.<P>Bill Mayer's bold art evokes classic travel posters with utterly modern color and flair. Allow your imagination to soar &#151; and discover something unexpected in each elegant picture puzzle.<br></p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p><P>Mayer (<I>A Walk in the Rain with a Brain</I>) creates a '20s-style travel poster for each letter in this elegant abecedary. Working in grainy airbrush gouache to mimic the steely blue, velvety gold and crimson of classic lithography, he creates a 26-piece design showcase while reproducing certain static, monumental elements of art deco. Mayer's cover image and letter-A page, All Aboard!, pictures a docked steamship. Upon closer inspection, readers see that the ship's hull, a diagonal gangplank and a supporting beam discreetly form a slant-sided A. Landing pictures silvery prop planes cruising on a floodlit runway that forms a wide L; Tour pictures the T-shaped red handlebars of a stylized black bicycle. The final page p

Who reads All Aboard! : a Traveling Alphabet?

Author

concept by Chris L. Demarest

Publisher

Margaret K. McElderry; Margaret K. McElderry Books

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780689852497

Category

children's

Subjects

Travel, Children'S, Anthropology

Rating

3.35 / 5 (79 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14