Recently, I got am Amazon kindle, and every once in a while, I download one of their free books. One of the books that I downloaded is called "ABC Alphabet Books of Things That Move" by Aldona Hawthorne. First I will list what she put for each letter, putting in my comments where I have some:
A: Ambulance B: Bus C: Cable Car D: Dump Truck E: Electric Car F: Fire Engine G: Go Kart H: Helicopter I: Icebreaker J: Jet plane K: Kayak L: Locomotive M: Motorbike N: Noah's Ark Despite my personal feelings about the bible and specifically this story, it is the name of a specific ship out of literature, and not a generic form of transportation as are (most) of the rest of the items in this list, though I really can't think of anything better. O: Ocean Liner P: Pickup Truck Q: Quad Bike R: Race Car S: Scooter T: Tractor U: Underground Train V: Van W: Wind Turbine I personally would have chosen "wagon" here. Perhaps Ms. Hawhorne did not choose "wagon" because they are not self powered, but there are some types of wagons that are. Perhaps you could mount a wind turbine on one and hook it up so that it is self-powered, though. Perhaps she did not think "wagon" was "exotic" enough, though I really dont think that dump trucks and tractors are all that exotic either. X: eXcavator The book describes and eXcavator as "...a big and powerful construction machine..." What they have pictured looks to me like a backhoe. I think it is a bit of a stretch calling a backhoe an eXcavator, though perhaps that is the common name in some parts of the world, and using that word for the letter "X," but on the other hand, I can't think of anything better. Y: Yacht Z: Zeppelin
Most of them are more or less generic forms of transportation, except for the things I made some comments about. I think they would make a neat alphabet quilt, not that I a planning to make one any time soon.
As for getting the pictures, I could print them from the book itself onto cloth that has been treated with bubble jet set or something like that. I am not certain how to print from a kindle, but I think that I could work out that technical problem in some way. I also think that copyright would only be an issue if I planned to mass produce it and sell it at wherever, but since I would make just one for expecting parents, I don't think that would be a problem.
I could also print pictures off the internet. That would eliminate the technical problem as I already know how to print a picture off the internet.
I suppose I could also figure out how to make pieced blocks that are pictures of the various items, or perhaps there are patterns online for the objects, at least some of them.
I just thought that this would be interesting.
Brian Christiansen