A Farmer's Alphabet

Before she became a Caldecott medalist, Mary Azarian was a teacher in one of Vermont¿s last one-room schoolhouses. In the late 1970s, the state board of education commissioned her to create ¿a farmer¿s alphabet,¿ a series of bold red-and-black woodcut prints featuring the 26 letters, A to Z, and depicting scenes from Vermont life.