Drew Finn's Book Cover

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dialecticdreamer has created this image of a book cover for my Polychrome Heroics series.


This is a book that Drew Finn is reading. At first glance, the cover seems blank. On closer inspection, it is luxurious paper with a pattern of tiny bumps.

Drew belongs to a family involved in the Soup to Nuts group. They're blue plate specials -- not crimefighting superheroes, but people who use superpowers in their ordinary jobs, in this case, various types of crisis response or support work. You'll be seeing more of them later. Anyway, Drew is one of the few sighted people who is learning how to read Braille by touch.

Found in Drew Finn's backpack -- he's working independently to touch-read Braille -- the cover reads:

First Letters in Braille
For the Adult Learner
by Charles Montgomery Hudson

The leading dot at the bottom right before some letters, rather like a reverse period, means “capital letter follows,” so some words have them and some do not.