A is for Bee

What letter does the word bee start with?

If you said “B” you’re right – in English!

But in many, many languages it actually starts with A.

Bee is Anu is Igbo.

Ari in Turkish.

Aamoo is Ojibwe.

And Abelha in Portugese.

Come and explore the gorgeous variations in the ways we talk about familiar things, unified and illuminated through Ellen Heck’s eye-catching, graphic scratchboard details and hidden letterforms.