Fine artist Sam Winston, cocreator of the New York Times
best-selling A Child of Books, celebrates the power of stories and
written languages--and the imperative to preserve them.
Once there were many stories in the world. There were stories with
sunsets and wonderful tales filled with fairies and dinosaurs. But one
day, a story decided that it was the best, the most important story
ever. It called itself the One and started to consume every other story
it came across. The One ate stories made of seas and others full of
dogs. Soon it seemed that the One was all there was . . . or was it?
Inspired by the Endangered Alphabets project, aimed at preserving
cultures by sharing their unique scripts, author-illustrator Sam Winston
uses writing systems such as cuneiform and Tibetan, Egyptian hieroglyphs
and ogham to illustrate this book in his signature typography-based
style, using symbols and letters that have relayed the world's stories
over the centuries.