What do you love? A short story and picture book for children and adults.
Five young friends share their love as they look up at the blue sky...
What Do You Love? Presented in three ways.
The first invites the reader to “picture this”. Here the reader has the opportunity of imagining those things written about, as they focus on the music, form, play, and meaning of words. The second includes artworks that present ways of seeing the story. The third has been formatted for the visually impaired.
The font used for the first two presentations of the story may not be accessible for everyone as it uses a style with ligatures, a feature of typography that combines the shapes of certain sequences of characters into a new form that makes for a more visually harmonious reading experience. The third presentation is presented in a more conventional font format, more easily read by those with visual impairment.
I read differently when words are alone as compared with when they are presented with pictures. Each approach leaves a unique impact on the head and heart.
My hope is that whatever your age, you find something to love. Read more of my thoughts about What Do You Love? at 100 Art Works.
Mike
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Words become within us. Saying words out loud, repeating them, even whispering them, transforms them.
When viewed on an Apple computer, and when the mouse hovers over the word 'friend' in the PDF, a link to create an event will appear. This is because the font uses ligatures that joins the letters 'e' and 'n', and Apple's system mistakenly notes 'fri' as short for Friday.
In Arabic, Friday (الجمعة al-jumʿah) refers to a congregation or gathering, and so I decided not to change this unexpected element.
"...beautiful, powerful, and very moving..."