![]() ![]() Other entries include "C is for Clare who wasted away" and "W is for Winnie embedded in ice." Poor little Winnie. The book begins with "A is for Amy who fell down the stairs." It follows with "B is for Basil assaulted by bears." For this entry an image shows little Basil surrounded by two very large bears. It is an alphabet book but it really isn't appropriate for small children unless the parent wants to explain death as well as the alphabet. ![]() Death is standing behind the children holding an umbrella on the book's cover. The entries are accompanied by fascinating, dark drawings. The twenty-six children die in different ways as the dark humored book takes the reader from A to Z. They die in a number of different ways in Gorey's alphabet book. The Tinies have a very difficult time surviving. Edward Gorey created a creepy alphabet book called The Gashlycrumb Tinies. ![]()
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