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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.
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languages, translation, diversity, diverse cultures, alphabet, culture
A is for Bee is an alphabet book with words in many other languages. A is for 'Bee' because in Turkish, Ojibwe, and Portuguese, the word starts with A (Ari, Aamoo, and Abelha, respectively). The pages follow this same format, providing words for English animal names in different languages. The languages featured come from every continent. A QR code at the back of the book provides native speaker pronunciations for each word and a list of all the languages represented.
