Adam and Sophia are twins. Sophia has wings and Adam doesn’t. One day their parents leave. “Don’t go into the forest,” they said, but Adam did. Adam gave his word, and broke it. Now he is lost and alone, and his voice is gone. Sophia flies overhead and drops a piece of paper. It flutters into the forest. Except for a lock of hair the paper is blank. Immediately, adventures and experiences unfold for Adam, some common, some extraordinary, some unearthly and beautiful. Letters appear on the paper as Adam wakes up to his ‘alphabet’. Slowly, painfully, joyously Adam wins back his word.

Adam’s Alphabet is an alphabet tale unlike any written before. Multilayered and broad, it reads as a children’s story, but underneath run deeper waters that adults can plumb for profit and pleasure if they take delight in the spoken word.

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Reg Down grew up in Canada, Namibia, South Africa and Ireland. He trained as a eurythmist, an art of movement and gesture, in England and Germany. The father of three, he has taught eurythmy in Waldorf schools in Australia, Canada and the United States, as well as at Rudolf Steiner College in Sacramento, California. He is the author of Leaving Room for the Angels, a book on eurythmy and artistic pedagogy, Color and Gesture - the Inner Life of Color, and a novel, The Fetching of Spring. He now lives in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada after spending many years in the USA.

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