Mime Alphabet Book

1. tjfgnv
   April 18th, 2008 at 2:48 am

   the concept of xenophobia is wrong

2. Rosi
   April 18th, 2008 at 6:21 am

   I think it’s a bit creepy, but not as bad as some children’s books I’ve seen. There’s a company which produces children’s books based on the Seven Deadly Sins, and it’s just plain disturbing, as well as scary (in the book about Wrath one of the children is pushed down some stairs and dies). Has anyone else heard of this?

3. empty-minded
   April 18th, 2008 at 6:51 am

   A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

4. ahw
   April 18th, 2008 at 8:57 am

   the flickr set these came from is amazing!

5. cuimhne
   April 18th, 2008 at 10:51 am

   This is awesome! Is the person who owns the book sure it’s a children’s book? Seems more like an art book.

6. jessleigh
   April 18th, 2008 at 5:43 pm

   I’m going to try to find a copy of that book. Ebay, here I go!

7. Lea
   April 18th, 2008 at 7:42 pm

   Terrifying

8. Alannah
   April 19th, 2008 at 10:25 pm

   The D is for dying mime scares me.

9. eliz.avery
   May 28th, 2008 at 9:17 pm

   Wow! I’m the person who uploaded this on flickr! I had no idea that this odd little book I found at our local library book sale had gotten so much notice. Yes, it was absolutely a children’s book (not at all an art book). It was being deaccessioned and it was in perfect condition; it clearly had never been looked at (I wonder why?). I’d be happy to scan the rest of it, but I gave the book away to a flickr pal who was pining for it! Maybe I should ask him to scan the rest!

10. Cathy Gasiorowicz
    February 15th, 2009 at 8:32 pm

    Wow! Nina and I created this book when I was in 10th grade as a way to avoid writing a paper on communications. We shot the photos in our basement on a white sheet, and because we developed them ourselves in a friend’s darkroom, they were a mess–to say nothing of my mime abilities which were primitive at best. (I did, however, score an “A.”)

    When Lerner Publications picked it up, we were paid a total of $300–big bucks compared to babysitting–but even better, we were panned by the NY Times Review of Books. That’s actually one of my prouder moments–how many teenagers can claim THAT?!

    Anyway, it’s utterly lovely to read about this odd little book online–a concept which in 1974 wasn’t even the stuff of SciFi.

    Regards,
    Cathy

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