You’ve got a ticket…
…to the most astounding amusement park ever imagined.
From Alligators in the Air to the Zebra Zeppelin, come on an alphabetic tour of an amusement park so spectacular it must be a dream. Or is it?
Tickets to Ride is my first published children’s picture book. Publishers Weekly had this to say about it: In this fantasmagoric children's book debut, subtitled "An Alphabetic Amusement," the alphabet serves only to impose some order on Rogalski's imagination…The first trip through the book is entertaining; the second is genuinely absorbing.
The Daily Telegraph, London, called Tickets to Ride “…easily the most unusual and arresting picture book of the year” and Good Reads gave it “Five Stars! Outstanding!”
Tickets to Ride even won an award! The International Literacy Association (ILA) awarded Tickets to Ride their Children's and Young Adults' Book Award for Primary Fiction. Books from all countries and published in English were considered. This was quite an honor.
Each amusement ride is accompanied by an illustrated ticket, which alludes to a bit more than meets than each.
The ride titles on each ticket were created from vintage typography, they were hand-set, and the typefaces are unique to each ticket.
This little duck accompanies readers through the book, as well as through the park, but he is not always easily found.