My mom was born in Denmark, and during her most recent trek back to the little country, I asked if she would bring me back a Danish ABC book.
She returned with Halfdan’s ABC book, a wonderfully illustrated — and from the meager amounts I can interpret — funny, ABC book written with slightly less… wholesome… humor than we feed our American kids.
In Book By Its Cover style (okay, well maybe not as cool), I present you with some of my favorite pages from the book.
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Øl is beer, by the way! (Æ, Ø, and Æ are all additional Danish letters that come after Z in the alphabet.)
Detail of the “V” and “W” page. In Danish, “W” is called “double V” and is never used (not even on the “W” page of this book).
Also love this inside cover! So many letters!
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The woman getting her head blown off has the scariest facial expression ever.
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