"Much of today's most exuberant, most creative and most telling imagery is all around us, in the street. Nowhere is the visual cornucopia more striking than in India, whose roads are a continuous gallery of images vibrantly portraying the country's rich cultural diversity. From Arabian Sea to Indian Ocean, Northern Himalayas to southernmost tip, the subcontinent's overwhelming profusion of art and design excites the eyes." "Street furniture, architecture,...

A child who has not yet learned how to read looks out at the world and sees language as such a child would, as lines and squiggles that don't exactly make pictures but don't seem to make anything else either. Then, when the child starts to go to school and begins to learn his letters, his way of seeing begins to change.

A picture book consisting of photographs of signs seen in a city.

When Yoko gets lost in the airport, she uses her sign-reading skills to find her way back to her mama.