The Alphabel I Found in Mom's Kitchen
My name is Will.
Mom calls me Will the Explorer.
Bedroom, Bathroom, Playroom.
I call those rooms the Lands of Wonder.
But Kitchen, oh Mom's Kitchen,
Are you a room, a land of wonder, or what?
To answer that, there's just one way:
Make you my destinnation
Today.
Tiên Võ is a maker of beautiful things, including her son, Will the Explorer. “The Alphabet I Found in Mom's Kitchen” was in embryo at the time she was expecting the child. Tiên typifies Vietnam's growing breed of creative “slashies:: art director/ author/ illustrator. Besides being the first Vietnamese artist to have work exhibited in Milan for Good 50x70 project, she also got featured on ELLE Magazine, ELLE Decoration Magazine, AnyArena, Designboom - just to name a few. Tiên finished half marathon twice. Three times, if the process of making this book is counted.
Nguyễn Hoàng Vũ made his debut as a fiction writer in 2000, on his parents' blackboard. The story was about a boy named Louis, his grumpy brother and a yellow thread - that's all the author can remember. It was a bestseller across the room for a
while, which pleased Vũ so much that he decided to write this one 16 years later. Vũ has won a few creative awards such as Young Bloods, Vietnam PR Concepts and Spikes Asia. Most of the time, he pretends to be a copywriter to mask his real job: a professional daydreamer.
Trúc Võ is a set designer and a handy girl. Among the 7 siblings in her family, she's the only one who can fix stuff when dad isn't home. Trúc believes her hands are the greatest creative tool of all. She nailed it (sometimes using a hammer) with conceptual installation projects for ELLE Magazine and a number of commercial brands. Just like her nephew, Will the Explorer, Trúc makes explorations in her attic studio every day.
