About the Author

Stephen T. Johnson is a highly versatile American artist whose art spans a broad range of concepts, contexts and mediums including painting, collage, drawing, sculpture and installations and can be seen in museum and gallery exhibitions, public art commissions, and through his original award-winning children's books.

Much of Johnson's work is characterized by an interest in the alphabet and language, which began with his bookAlphabet City, a Caldecott Honor andNew York TimesBest Illustrated Book of the Year. His most recent engagement with the alphabet is his ongoing series of "literal abstractions" which are the subject of his bookA is for Art- An Abstract Alphabet, also aNew York TimesBest Illustrated Book of the Year, and featured in several solo museum and gallery exhibitions.

Reviews

This wordless ABC, a Caldecott Honor book illustrated with photo-realistic still lifes, "transcends the genre by demanding close inspection of not just letters, but the world," said PW in a starred review. All ages. (Nov.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.