Bernardosaurus says:Bernardosaurus says:I've wanted to do an alphabet book for quite a while. This book is about a toddler-sized T-Rex that literally and figuratively sinks his teeth into the alphabet. "There was once a little T-Rex who loved his ABCs so much, he ate them up."
On each page I show the little T-Rex taking a bite out of a letter along with visual clues for words starting with that letter. As he bites into more and more letters, he gets fatter and fatter, until: "X reminds him of his X-ercycle." At the end of the book I list some of the words the reader may have missed.
I almost bit off more than I could chew in creating this book. It wasn't easy, but I had fun lettering the chewed-up alphabet: capital letters with bites taken out of them for the front endpapers and lower-case letters with bites taken out of them for the back endpapers. I've always had a love for typography going back to my high school days at The School of Industrial Art (now known as the High School of Art & Design), as well as my college days at Pratt Institute.
ABC T-Rex was hard work at times, but in the end, very satisfying.