A to Z of things

I really liked this post. I also have friends who have young children, and was inspired to give them a book like this. But everyone involved speaks Finnish, so I ended up creating my own.

I just got my copies from mail. It looks really unimpressive in these low-quality phone-camera photos of the physical book, but it's really satisfying in real life - like Katja, I paid attention to using high-quality photos. For the cover picture I chose Earthrise. 

(I'm not sharing the full photos due to uncertainties with copyright, but if you want your copy, I can send the materials to you.)

More information about the creation process:

• I didn't know where to look for photos, but Claude had suggestions. I quickly ended up using just one service, namely Adobe Stock. Around 80% of my pictures are from there.
  • I don't know where Grace got her pictures from, but would like to know - I think her pictures were slightly better than mine on average.
  • I found myself surprised that, despite doing countless school presentations with images, no one told me that there are these vast banks of high-quality images. (Instead I always used Google's image search results, which is inferior.)
  • Finding high-quality photos depicting what I wanted was the bulk of the work.
• I had a good vision of the types of words I wanted to include. After having a good starting point, I benefited a little (but just a little) from using LLMs to brainstorm ideas.
• To turn it into a photo, I needed to create images for the text pages. Claude was really helpful with coding (and debugging ä's and ö's). It also helped me compile a PDF I could share with my friends. (I only instructed and Claude programmed - Claude sped up this part by maybe 5x.)
• My friends gave minor suggestions and improvements, a few of which made their way to the final product.
• Total process took around 15 person-hours.

I didn't want to have any information like authors or a book title in the book: I liked the idea that the children will have a Mysterious Book in their bookshelf. (The back cover has some information about the company that made the book, though.)

Here's the word list:

A: Avaruus (space)

B: Bakteeri (bacteria)

C: Celsius

D: Desi

E: Etäisyys (distance)

F: Folio (foil)

G: Geeni (gene)

H: Hissi (elevator)

I: Ilma (air)

J: Jousi (spring)

K: Kello (clock)

L: Linssi (lens)

M: Määrä (quantity)

N: Nopea (fast)

O: Odottaa (to wait)

P: Pyörä (wheel)

R: Rokote (vaccine)

S: Solu (cell)

T: Tietokone (computer)

U: Uuni (oven)

V: Valo (light)

Y: Ympyrä (circle)

Ä: Ääni (sound)

Ö: Ötökkä (bug)

General relativity for babies is a classic: 

Thanks!

Why is the picture for "reference class" a bunch of seals? 

I really like the idea of creating a Good ABC book, and the author executed it well. Out of the recreational posts of 2023, this is the one I've liked the most. I can't articulate why exactly, but the visuals are great, it Creates A Thing, and it's an example of things I'd like there to be more in the world. It inspired me [LW(p) · GW(p)] create my own version. I give it a +9 for the 2023 review.

This was so adorable I showed it to all my housemates and we read the book aloud together.

Cool. Though a bit disturbing to see "agriculture" being illustrated with "animal agriculture" rather than growing crops.