When night falls, a peculiar thief steals each letter of the alphabet, creating a topsy-turvy world as she goes.

"Come aboard this unique photographic ark for a dazzling journey through the animal kingdom - via the alphabet! - the brings some of Earth's most beautiful and endangered creatures to life" --

A collection of poems celebrating the playfulness of the English language.

From apples to cows, kettles to scarecrows, an alphabet poem accompanies a description in verse with country images for readers to identify.

Simple verses and colorful photographs show words beginning with the letters of the alphabet.

Alphabetical listing of angels in rhyming verse, illustrated with photographs of angels posed in dreamlike settings.

"What happens to the pictures of us? Nowadays they go straight to the Internet where anyone anywhere in the world can see them. And they're nothing terribly special. It wasn't that way a hundred years ago, when getting your picture taken was a very important event. You dressed your best and you looked thoughtfully and for a long time into the awesome, magical lens of the camera. But even these important pictures sometimes were lost, sold by the photographer...