A to Zåäö: Playing with History at the ASI

A to Zåäö: Playing with History at the ASI book available at American Swedish Institute.
A to Zåäö: Playing with History at the ASI book available at American Swedish Institute.
A to Zåäö: Playing with History at the ASI book available at American Swedish Institute.
A to Zåäö: Playing with History at the ASI book available at American Swedish Institute.

A to Zåäö: Playing with History at the ASI

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This special all-ages picture book is an introduction to the Swedish alphabet with a romp from A to Z (and then Å to Ä to Ö ~ Swedish vowels).

Artifacts from ASI’s collection were charmingly rendered in watercolor by local artist Tara Sweeney and animated with whimsical pen-and-ink characters by her son, illustrator Nate Christopherson.

This curious cast of characters takes a journey of exploration through the Turnblad Mansion, bringing the collection to life and celebrating ASI’s 90th anniversary.

This labor of love has been years in the making and ASI is thrilled to share the finished product with longtime supporters and new visitors.

Hardcover

Award-winning artist, illustrator, and author Tara Sweeney received a Minnesota State Arts Board grant to co-illustrate and author A to Zåäö with her son, Nate Christopherson. She is author of Close to Home: A Minnesota Year in Sketches, a collection of illustrated creative nonfiction. She is professor emeritus at Augsburg University, where she taught drawing and painting for twenty-five years.

Nate Christopherson is a special education teacher and freelance illustrator. He created art for Amy Leach’s Things That Are and a special edition of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass for the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. He received a Minnesota State Arts Board grant to illustrate The Island, an award-winning limited-edition collaborative artist book. Sweeney and Christopherson both live in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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