D-C-T

There are few books about New York City that have charmed as many generations as William Steig's CDB! Just as there are few cities as storied and replete with life as New York City, there are few illustrators or writers who have charmed as many generations as William Steig. To Molly Young and Joana Avillez, a connection between the two seemed obvious, and so DC-T was born. Using a playful phonetic language first invented by Steig in his now classic 1968 book CDB!, but which in today's world of text message and internet shorthand feels uncannily contemporary, Young and Avillez tell a different story on each page of this collection of illustrations stuffed to the brim with humor and cleverness: SLIF! (It is alive!), A boy shouts gleefully at a pile of rubbish seething with rats, M B-Z (I'm busy!), declares the phone-wielding businesswoman to the would-be mugger, UI? (Are you high?), a lone man asks another sitting across from him on the subway.