Bad Words

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by Kris Kowal · 2023

Aa is for bread, Bb is for thumb, Cc is for scissors: an alphabet book in which every letter is silent sometimes, picked out in red in a word that does not say it.

Illustrated with OpenMoji emoji, set in Nunito, and dedicated to Lydia Michele, Orion Eärendil and Haley Tinúviel.

What you get

• A PDF of the printer’s spreads, 12 pages
• Up to 5 downloads within 90 days of buying it
• Print as many copies as you like for your family and friends

Board book, 12 spreads, 873 × 432 pt (two 6-inch square pages and the spine). Ready to send to Pint Size Productions or any printer of board books.

Illustrations from OpenMoji (HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd), CC BY-SA 4.0. Silent letters from Merriam-Webster’s “Every Letter Is Silent, Sometimes”. Nunito by Vernon Adams.

Yours to share

The pictures in Bad Words are from OpenMoji, the open-source emoji project of HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, which shares them under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA 4.0). The book is made from them, so I share it under the same license. Once you have the PDF, you may copy it, print it and pass it on, to anyone and for any purpose, as long as you credit OpenMoji and the book’s author and share it under the same license.