05-30-2014 DESIGN Monster Alphabet Makes Learning To Read Creepy-Fun These 26 wretched beast-letters, illustrated for a children’s book, are captivatingly scary.

James Rumford. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), $16 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-618-22140-0 For older readers, the myth of Cadmus (reputed to have brought the alphabet to Greece) is reimagined in There's a ...