A beautifully illustrated multilingual alphabet book, to teach children about the amazing diversity of languages. 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 Anu is Igbo.Ari in Turkish.Aamoo is Ojibwe.And Abelha in Portugese.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.

Author Biography: Ellen Heck is a printmaker. For the past decade, through several projects, she has explored questions about identity. Inspired by reading Lithuanian alphabet books to her son, A is for Bee is her debut picture book.