Fun Animal Alphabet - A Picture Book for Children (Bulgarian Edition)

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Like the A is for Asparagoose Facebook page! I enjoy custom projects of all stripes. From signage, imaging, and organizing, to workshops and websites, I like to see dreams come alive. I revel in the process and bask in the final product. Check out my website and Instagram. I love puzzles, fantasy, and a courageous cause. I like to make grammar jokes and puns, and my heart fills up when children laugh at my antics. The concept for A is for Asparagoose had been floating around as an ongoing in-joke with my partner and Co-Conceptual Prince, Thomas , so we have always had a running list of animal and plant combos.

I even had sketches for some of them. When I upgraded my technology to a tablet in early , I decided to become familiar with the digital paintbrush. As I tested my skills at digital painting, I wanted a fun project to work on as I learned, and I tried drawing an asparagoose. I loved it so much and was hooked—I learned a whole new method of illustration because I practiced it 26 times!

I had so much fun developing, drawing, and learning fun facts about all these silly alphabet characters. Sharing the one copy I have of this book with people and seeing them laugh is a fully satisfying reward. Add the bonus of seeing young kids learn about animals and plants, and I am super happy and gracious.

Now, folks want their own copies of this book! Each page is a a full-color spread for each letter of the alphabet; every letter has a corresponding illustration of a creature built from an animal and plant combination. The hybrids have been selected for their visual impact, as well as how fun or silly it is to read the resulting word.

The left page shows a small image and description fun facts! The descriptions are long enough to put a toddler to sleep, and educational enough to pique the interest of children and adults alike! The book will be a 7" x 7" hardcover printed by PrintNinja with the highest quality ink and paper. The paper will be 85lb. I've chosen real ink offset printing versus digital toner printing, which requires a large quantity order. This will ensure the most vibrant colors and consistency.

There will be 56 pages in the book. I want to stress that I am using the absolute highest quality materials and printer that I could find for children's books. Although I am initially self-publishing, I want there to be absolutely no difference in quality between my book and those created by high end publishers.

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Order your copy of the first edition of A is for Asparagoose. These PDF files will be emailed to you when the campaign ends. These are the original 4" x 4" gouache sketches of select pages from the book. Only one available for the following letters: Printed on gsm semi-gloss poster paper with 5mm white border to assist in framing.

Shipped in a tube container. These products are manufactured by Redbubble. If you'd like to see my entire Redbubble shop and learn more about the company and products, click here! These illustrations make awesome T-shirts. You choose the letter you want to wear and the t-shirt color. Slim fit, but if that's not your thing, order a size up. Because the illustrations and layout for this book are complete, and I have already received two rounds of test prints, the challenge I foresee is going to be in the shipping process mail delays, etc.

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The printer I have chosen includes the following statement in their shipping disclaimer: Questions about this project? Check out the FAQ. Purchase a first-edition copy of the book. The "I know another person who needs this book" reward. Want to pre-order multiple copies? Get two copies of the book with this donation amount. Get a signed first-edition copy of the book and a signed The "I know a lot of little people who need this book" reward. Get three copies of the book with this donation amount. You want all three? Get a signed copy of the book, a signed poster print, and a T-shirt.

CAT 21 B 1923-1952

Good Plus; no names, extrems bumped, a little worn; boards darkened along margins, cover slightly bowed, interior nice. By misadventure, Gigi can no longer send letters to Lili, who has also come to America.

Children's poetry Sofiya, Bulgaria: Chipev, , presumed first, a very well bound board book of 10 matte finished boards, including top and bottom covers, with red cloth spine cover; delightful intricately coloured folk illustrations and decorated capitals on each page, These are six line poems by the Bulgarian writer, poet, and critic Dora Gabe, - Each poem is illustrated with a rural domestic child scene, two children chat with a ladybug, a boy picks flowers in the woods, a mother plays pat-a-cake with her baby, a family gathers proudly around the pumpkin they have grown.

The decorated letters are beautiful as is the traditional dress. Very Good; paper has toned on boards, colours still glow, no names but faint small words "Russian" on top board and "Bulgarian" on copyright page, slight wear to top and bottom of spine cloth, 1" tear in spine the only real flaw, binding secure. Board pages light with bright clear colours. The author's first book for children, now a classic. Fine in Very Good jacket; no names, a lovely book, in a darkening jacket with minor edgewear all around and a few tiny chips; unclipped 2. Michael Joseph , true 1st printing; blue endpapers with pattern of wooden doll, and, perhaps, tree; 4 coloured plates; 8vo; pp.

Very Good without jacket, no names, fading on board edges and spine with very clean cloth and silver doll, bright, light foxing to edges, a couple of foxing spots inside, clean, straight, and unwrinkled. Adam of the Road. Viking, , 1st printing same date, 1st printing published ; green cloth boards with stamped E.

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Gray black and gold Newbery medal, map endpapers, top edge green, in full colour jacket with Adam and dog walking along, tall 8vo; pp. Adam searches far and wide for his minstrel father and his dog. A fresh and colourful picture of the road in 13th c. England with full page illustrations by Lawson introducing each chapter; a pictorial map of Adam's wanderings on endpapers. Queen of the Pirate Isle. Frederick Warne, reissue; beige boards with green lined border and full colour paste on plate, green edges all around, frontis plus 27 coloured illustrations, in off white dustjacket with different illustration; 6.

Near Fine in Very Good Minus jacket; no names, a lovely copy in an evenly soiled, lightly edgeworn jacket with 1" missing from spine foot; three closed tears: Very Good without jacket; no names, corner tips and spine ends bumped and worn through; 8 plates in nice condition. Wilhelmina, a Little Dutch Girl.

A very good little girl helps her family, in a period setting in the Netherlands. Many details of Dutch life, and nice flat, bright-coloured lithos of interiors and of the children in traditional dress. Dutton, stated first; wire spiral binding, yellow, green and cream boards with Robert and the three cats; "endpaper" design with cat and boy portraits in checkerboard; 10x7. William, Eugene, and Pansy Face, little child cats, find a little lost boy, take him home, and make a pet of him. A strange little story about the meaning of having pets. Near Fine, no names, darkening a little, no other flaws.

The Land of Shvambrania. Drawn from an elaborate game the author and his brother play over several years, which terminated abruptly on the eve of the Russian Revolution. Our game reflected reality, everything which was at that time set our boyish brains on fire: Near Fine in Good Plus jacket; no names, clean and straight; in rubbed, darkening jacket with moderate edgewear all around but little loss of paper; unclipped 2.

Puppy Play House New York: William Morrow, , 1st printing of this book; in paper boards with all around painting of dogs escaping from a pet shop and running along a street; not spiral bound; map fixed endpapers and no free endpapers as issued, six card dogs are stored in the Firehouse and fit in their dog beds; in jacket identical to boards; oblong 9.

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This is the original version of the Polygraphic Company's Puppy Play House in a binding very liable to damage. Copyright Dorothy K Werblow, , no place mentioned; spiral bound with picture of a Toy shop window on front; with six doll heads which fit on their bodies; oblong 9.

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Lots of fun to be had switching the heads into the wrong bodies, I remember it well! William Morrow, 1st printing of this book; in paper boards with painting of children waving from the SS Homeland and a blue back; not spiral bound as with later printing; sad sun on front endpaper and happy sun on rear endpaper with no free endpapers as issued, doubled pages; six card children are stored on the deck and can be fit in their homeland pages; in a jacket identical to boards; oblong 9.

In a pretty realistic story, six children lose their name tags on their trip back to their homelands on an ocean liner, and they need the reader's help in getting home. McGraw-Hill, , 1st printing; in jacket with Paji against a background of deep green jungle leaves; small quarto, 56 pp. Paji ran away from his elephant carving job at his uncle's Big Cheap Elephant Factory.

He and his dreamy bullock friend Push-ba hid in an ancient dagoba and there Paji made beautiful carvings, each different. A charming story in fluid three colour lithos. Very Good Plus in Very Good jacket; no names, clean and tight, slight bumps to spine extremities, crisp jacket with tiny chips to extrems, 1. Beautiful lithographs for each of the eleven baby stories, told in unrhymed verse.

Very Good Plus in Very Good clipped jacket; neat adult name, straight and clean, with some darkening to edges and a little bump to spine foot, in jacket with top edgewear, up to a quarter inch on the spine, half inch crease tear. Fables de la Fontaine. La Bonne Compagnie, , limited edition of the first 50 in a special edition with an original watercolour ; rebound in half leather, brown calf with nine bands in a contemporary design, brown marbled paper boards, brown marbled endpapers smaller pattern gilt titles, teg, ribbons, spine of original softcover bound in volume two, two full page watercolours and small coloured illustrations in text; Vol I pp, Vol II pp.

A beautiful set with peaceful pictures of the French countryside published just after the war. Very Good; in elegant script, a lovely quoted verse to the recipient Paris on one of three blank pages following the endpaper, essentially unread, tight in binding with white pages. Little, Brown Co, 1st printing;. When the children have overcome these little faults, the watchbirds will fly away. Stokes, , 2nd impression; green cloth binding with black titles; inside pastedown with happy Watchbird, illustrated in red and black; 9. Ads on the back of jacket for Grammar, Manners, Safety, R.

Very Good without jacket; no names, clean boards with one narrow 1" stained area on spine, bumped extrems, top front corner for half inch , corners and spine ends rubbed and faded; opens freely, very clean, but wrinkled pages. Lippincott Company, ; probably a 60's printing based on publisher name and works listed; grey cloth with dull red picture and letters; bright red jacket with hero, list of Fun books on back; 6. The absurd story of RFW who refused to go to school, but, at last as grown-up, realized that his career options were limited Petite Histoire de La Fayette.

The following four Pere Castors appear to have been purchased together, all but Plouf in really lovely condition. Rojankovsky's colours glow on this old soft paper. Flammarion, Albums Pere Castor, ; imprime: Dechaux, card wraps with animal figure, 8. Very Good; no names, clean, tight, straight, card and adjacent pages are darkening, tiny bumps to corners, staples slightly pulled, all else flat and clean. Near Fine; no names,clean, tight, straight, no staple pull; card and adjacent pages are darkening, else nice.

Very Good; no names, clean, tight, straight, partial staple pull; card and adjacent pages are darkening, one light margin smudge. Ann-Marie, the carefully tended girl next door, envies FRD their loving mother and active play. Good Plus without jacket; no names, spine ends and corners rubbed, one corner tip and spot on edge worn through, paste-on plate clean, undamaged, and bright with a few lines of soil in a 1" area; interior very clean with one corner crease; about five pages lightly bent in corner. The John Day Company, , 1st printing, nap Zempel ; green cloth boards; green top edge; 8vo; pp.

Very Good without jacket; no names, spine and top edge quite faded, some spotting on back, pages yellowing a bit, otherwise a nice straight copy. Cloth spine with pictorial boards; 8. Bright folkloric colours and images in lithos by a well-known Mexican artist, full coloured and eight half-coloured pages, beautiful endpapers. A fantastic Brazilian bird on her way home from Labrador is held in a family house in the city.

Very Good in Good Minus jacket; no names, scattered minor reading wrinkles; in darkening jacket with large chips not affecting text or design; unclipped 2. Flammarion, [], Imprimerie Jos. Scholz, Mayence Mainz Germany ; white boards with rounded corners, on the front, the kangaroo Aunt showing a frog toy to laughing baby animals, on the back Aunt G. Kindly Aunt Gertrude keeps a school: Fair; terrible, in fact, but this is so hard to find and so much fun we are listing it anyway Flora and the others are dressing for a party.

Since Flora has nothing new to wear, the rabbit 's mother makes a hat for her, including holes for the ears. Flora's shyness is treated so gently! Several pages of script and drawings. Creation stories of the Tlingit, built around the story of two boys from different cultures who meet in a little town in Alaska. The book is dedicated To My Godson Merrill Whitney, adding to the printed dedication, the author has handwritten "who always justifies my faith in him, Jean West Maury, October 9, Good Plus without jacket; no names, front board bright and unscratched, spine a little faded, light bumps to extrems; front hinge has been skillfully repaired, pale soiling on half title, contents page, pp 28 to 29, uneven opening, otherwise pages are clean and unwrinkled; overall a fairly tight book in nice condition.

Peter wants so much for his little wooden horse to grow that the impossible occurs.

A Swiss picture book by a native Swedish artist. Near Fine, no names, tiniest of bumps on bottom corner, else without flaw. The Arrow of Tee-May. Doubleday Doran, , 1st printing; orange cloth stamped; 8vo; pp. A story of a Southwest Pueblo boy, set during the coming of the Conquistadors in Very Good Plus with no jacket; owner name, extremities bumped, spine faded, boards and interior bright and clean.

Doll House , a Rainbow Playbook. The World Publishing Company, Rainbow Playbooks, , stated 1st published September, ; illustrated boards of the outside of the house, showing little girl coming through door, in pink and blue with yellow flowers, bound by dark blue interior plastic comb, in jacket identical to boards; 9x Very Good Plus in Very Good jacket; no names or other marks, boards amazingly clean and bright, two half inch cracks in spine fold; pieces are all neatly cut out and accurately folded, all present except two empty slots on DR table; only flaws: Fairy Tales from Baltic Shores.

The Hampton Publishing Company ;. Iribarren y Horacio E. El Bombo de Bambu. Emece Editores November, , 1st, sd; coral pink matte boards with picture of little girl and yellow titles, black spine, plain endpapers; colorful illustrations throughout including a double foldout spread for the title poem; 8. A delightful compilation of the author's own poems as well as ones he has loved since childhood, illustrated with small bright paintings, with a spectacular center fold. Fair, because one signature is detached, otherwise very good, no names, a little rubbing along the edges, quarter inch splay, pages very bright, unwrinkled, and clean.

Macmillan, , 1st or early printing; red illustrated boards with Baby trembling on the circus elephant stool, nothing on back, blue endpapers, in jacket identical to boards with pre books on back flap, 8x10 inches; c 28 pp. In one of the Petersham's most charming books, Mother Elephant tries to teach her baby to eat at the table, as her friends the clown family do.

She herself is too big to fit at all. The baby makes a mess just as the clowns arrive! Very Good in Good Minus jacket; very bright, tight book with lovely colour in the cover illustration, with a little bumping and wear to extremities, first and last pages are a little reading wrinkled, in an evenly soiled, brittle jacket, with erased name, edgewear all around, half inch chips at spine ends affecting text, off and on four inch closed tear along spine crease; unclipped 1. Peter watched the moving van pull away from the house next door, but he didn't know his cat was in the bureau drawer.

Lippincott, Junior Literary Guild, 5th printing; green boards with black shield and titles on board and spine, in white jacket with black drawings highlighted in green of Wild Cat, and vignettes of Swallows and Amazons island and Swallowdale; 8vo; pp. Pirates, Pearls, Desert Islands and more!

Very Good Plus in Very Good jacket; no names, clean book with slight rubbing to board edges, in jacket darkening and evenly soiled, especially on spine and creases, one three eighth inch moisture spot; unclipped 3. Marcus, 15 rue Faraday ,. Jezek Pichacek Mezi Lidmi. Horky, reprint Josef Dolezal: Cervenem Kostelci ; red cloth backed grey cloth boards with the little hedgehog boy in red; yellow top edge; green jacket with portrait of little boy with flower behind his ear and prickly hair, rear flap mentions ; 8.

During the German occupation, Kubasta worked for a puppet theater under Cenek Sovak. This little hedgehog boy, Jezek Pichacek, was one of the puppets.

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