The Alphabet Two Ways Book Launch

Overview

One of the things I miss the most about being younger is my childlike outlook on life – if I wanted to climb a tree, I didn’t think about falling off; if I didn’t like something, I didn’t worry about if someone opposed my opinion. Then, with age comes life experiences that eventually quash that blindly optimistic and innocent perspective (‘if I fall out of the tree, I’ll definitely break an arm or a neck’/‘I can’t tell him his hair is stupid because he’ll totally bitch about me when I leave oh my god but it really is so dumb’), so sometimes I need a reminder of that childlike grace.

Enter The Alphabet Two Ways – a picture book developed and shot by four-year-old Cody King and her mother, Tricia King. It retains the basic concept of an alphabet book – with a picture corresponding to each letter – with a unique twist: each ‘word’ is shot by both Cody and Tricia simultaneously, offering varying physical perspectives of each object and displaying varying elements of interest in each scene. Example: in R for Rain, where mum sees the reflection of the sky on the wet concrete, daughter sees her bare feet standing on the wet deck. It’s a simple concept that challenges little minds and big minds both with a beautiful series if photographs.