Animology: Het Grote Boek van Letterkunst Alphabeasts

The colors in this book are so vivid they practically jump off the page, and the way each letter-art creature tells a little human story is genuinely clever. I’ve flipped through it three times already and keep spotting new details in the imagery. It’s the kind of book you buy for a kid but secretly

The way each animal is built entirely from its own letters is such a clever trick, and the colors are so vivid they practically jump off the page. My daughter keeps flipping back to the giraffe to trace the letters herself.

My kid spotted the alpaca on the cover and we spent a whole evening hunting for each hidden letter in the animal faces—the way the typography bends into the creatures is genuinely clever. The little stories under each one gave us a good laugh too, so it's become our new bedtime favorite.