In the beginning, people were ignorant of writing. Instead of writing they drew on rocks or stones. But they only drew what they saw (an eye, a hand, a snake) and could not draw their thoughts. They could not draw the words 'I Love You' or people's names.

The alphabet was not invented in a single day. This book reveals the secrets of the common origin of the alphabetic letter-forms.

Both entertaining and educational, A-dventure-Z: The Story of the Alphabet illustrates the history and development of the ancient signs that eventually led to the creation of the Roman alphabet. Under the influence of Egyptian hieroglyphics, proto-Canaanite pictograms in the second millennium B.C.E. evolved and split into different alphabetical systems, such as Phoenician, Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Arabic.

This is a clever book with informative text and full page colour illustrations based on the forms of the letters as they appear in ancient inscriptions and accompanied by rich palaeographical, historical, and linguistic information.