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Sticks And Stones: An Alphabet Book For The 21st Century

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In wonderful photos of our southern border between the United States and Mexico the author takes us on a 21st century alphabetic journey in bytes and bits represented by sticks and stones.......and she includes the arabic symbols all us kids know. We can find out about the photos in a paragraph description near the end of the tiny book. For the very curious she includes a bibligraphy and a website to explore further.
This book is a clever and fun glimpse at southern Arizona.

Don't be fooled by your cursory first impression of this "Alphabet Book for the 21st Century". Although it is organized by the presentation style of a children's ABC book, there is much more here than initially meets the eye. It uses the English alphabet and images of the borderland of southern Arizona as an entry into the intersection of the natural world and its human inhabitants. At this intersection, it offers the reader an opportunity to make connections in a mode that is both as old as primitive alphabets shaped by hand with sticks and stones and as new as 21st century alphabets that inhabit our pervasive computers, where bits and bytes fly by at unimaginable rates. If you let both approaches to this mode of processing information work in your mind simultaneously, you will find the imagery in the book taking you places where currents cross and fresh insights arise.