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While looking for something on Amazon, I ran across a typography book for children that was new to me: The Serif Fairy by Rene Siegfried.
“The Serif Fairy has lost her wing, keeping her from performing magic. This book follows her through an airy, immaculately designed typographic landscape as she hunts for it. Along the way, she makes friends and has adventures as she wanders through the Garamond Forest, visits Futura Town and eventually ends her quest at Shelley Lake.”
All the inhabitants and objects in the book are made from glyphs from four fonts: Futura, Garamond, Shelly Script and Zentenar Fraktur. You can see pictures from the book here
 A book I’m more familiar with is Bembo’s Zoo, an abecedarian book where animals are made up only of the letters in their names (using Bembo, of course). You can see many of the illustrations here.
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I have this book. It is very cute.
I love these! I haven’t spotted anything similar for littles, but my 17 year old and I recently read a YA novel called “So Yesterday,” which is sort of about viral marketing and sort of about corporate greed. But at one point when she was reading, she looked up and said, “Isn’t Garamond a type face? There’s a character in this book called Garamond.”
I was so pleased that she knew that, that I could of hugged her. Oh, okay, I did.