“A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P…”
This is a song nearly all of us know very well and some authors use the alphabet as a way to create non-fiction books about a topic or subject. Today we are going on a journey in the book, Alis the Aviator, written by Canadian author, Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail, to learn about many different types of planes. The main character, Alis, is named after Dr. Alis Kennedy, one of the first Indigenous female pilots in Canada. Not only is there much to learn about the history of flight, you can also learn about the art of cut paper with the book’s illustrator, Kalpna Patel.
As I learned about this book, I began to think about the alphabet photography art that I have in my home and have seen in different places. The idea of this found art is to find items that look like letters of the alphabet. I was inspired to try this by taking pictures of items around my home, in my backyard, and around my neighbourhood. Here are some of the letters I discovered. Which letters can you see? Try exploring around your home and outside to see which letter shapes you can find, and take photographs of them. Now we know our ABCs in a whole new way!