Author(s): ABELA LUCAS / DE SOUZA KEG

Picture Books

During the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020, Sydney artists Keg de Souza and Lucas Abela, decided to write a book for their 3-year-old, Ernie. They were inspired by the sudden isolation and a song titled 'foot-feet', which they spontaneously made up while musing with Ernie about how confusing English pluralisation can be. After Keg assembled some paper cut-outs to illustrate the point, they decided it would be cute to incorporate the concept into a counting book - making it a dual purpose learning tool teaching both Plurals and Numbers to young kids. That's the origin story behind Plurals Can Be Weird (you will see), this counting book about irregular plurals.