Here future urban enthusiasts can discover how words exist in the spaces around them, what words can do in 26 different fonts...The book is, first and foremost, a pictorial work about Toronto that will appeal to anyone who loves this city in lots of little ways.
- Spacing Magazine
Most inspiring [about this book] is the potential for youngsters to use this urban alphabet as motivation to go out and find words where they live, discuss their purpose, and hear their own city speaking to them.
- School Library Journal
...sophisticated...Beam's photographs will be appreciated for their found art quality, and Schwartz's words for their originality...
- Globe and Mail
...sophisticated...[City Alphabet is] an intriguing, eclectic selection that may encourage young people to notice the printed words that appear in unexpected urban places...
- Booklist
...[The photographs in City Alphabet are] meditations on the idea that, in the city, words are everywhere, the opening salvos in ongoing conversations...Stark, metallic and urban, these images may encourage children to think about alternate ways of seeing their surroundings
- Publishers Weekly
...artfully constructed...fascinating...It will certainly have readers seeing their own cities with new eyes.
- Kirkus Reviews