Noah Websters Fighting Words
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Author | : Tracy Maurer |
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Release | : 2017-02-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781512428391 |
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Noah Websterfamous for writing the first dictionary of the English language as spoken in the United Stateswas known in his day for his bold ideas and strong opinions about, well, everything. Spelling. Politics. Laws. You name it, he had something to say about it. He even commented on his own opinions! With a red pencil in hand, Noah often marked up work that he had already published. So when Noah's ghost came across this new picture book biography, he couldn't help but make a few suggestions!
Author | : Tracy Nelson Maurer |
Publisher | : Millbrook Press ™ |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2017-04-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1512438693 |
Download Noah Webster's Fighting Words Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Noah Webster, famous for writing the first dictionary of the English language as spoken in the United States, was known in his day for his bold ideas and strong opinions about, well, everything. Spelling, politics, laws, you name it—he had something to say about it. He even commented on his own opinions! With a red pencil in hand, Noah often marked up work that he had already published. So who edited this book? It certainly looks like the ghost of the great American author and patriot picked up a pencil once again to comment on his own biography!
Author | : Tracy Maurer |
Publisher | : Millbrook Press |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1467794104 |
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Describes the life and times of the man made famous for writing the first dictionary of the English language.
Author | : Jeri Chase Ferris |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2012-10-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0547935412 |
Download Noah Webster and His Words Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction Webster’s American Dictionary is the second most popular book ever printed in English. But who was that Webster? Noah Webster (1758–1843) was a bookish Connecticut farm boy who became obsessed with uniting America through language. He spent twenty years writing two thousand pages to accomplish that, and the first 100 percent American dictionary was published in 1828 when he was seventy years old. This clever, hilariously illustrated account shines a light on early American history and the life of a man who could not rest until he’d achieved his dream. An illustrated chronology of Webster’s life makes this a picture perfect bi-og-ra-phy [noun: a written history of a person's life].
Author | : Peter Martin |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2020-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691210179 |
Download The Dictionary Wars Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.
Author | : Tracy Nelson Maurer |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 23 |
Release | : 2021-02-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1250828651 |
Download Lady Bird Johnson, That's Who! Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Lady Bird Johnson, That's Who! is Tracy Nelson Maurer's lively picture book biography of Lady Bird Johnson, with a focus on her environmentalist passion and legacy as First Lady. Who fought to stop pollution? Who helped make America cleaner and greener? Lady Bird Johnson, That's Who! Claudia Alta Taylor was a lonely girl, shy as a butterfly growing up in Texas. She never dreamed she'd blossom into a visionary leader whose love for wildflowers, beautiful landscapes, and building community compelled her to lead the effort to combat pollution in the United States. A lifelong environmentalist, Lady Bird Johnson embraced her platform as First Lady to promote policy that beautified America’s roadways, waterways and parks, inspiring people to take pride in the places they live. With elements of women’s history, civics, and conservationism, this is a timely and informative picture book biography.
Author | : Tracy Nelson Maurer |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2017-03-28 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1250158311 |
Download John Deere, That's Who! Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Back in the 1830s, who was a young blacksmith from Vermont, about to make his mark on American history? John Deere, that’s who! Who moved to Illinois, where farmers were struggling to plow through the thick, rich soil they called gumbo? Who tinkered and tweaked and tested until he invented a steel plow that sliced into the prairie easy as you please? Long before the first tractor, who changed farming forever? John Deere, that’s who! Beautiful illustrations—including spectacular landscapes—reflect the time period and bring John Deere's remarkable story to life.
Author | : Kory Stamper |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2018-03-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 110197026X |
Download Word by Word Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.” With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage. Filled with fun facts—for example, the first documented usage of “OMG” was in a letter to Winston Churchill—and Stamper’s own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America’s foremost “irregardless” apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.
Author | : Natalie Goldberg |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2016-02-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0834840022 |
Download The Great Spring Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
From the beloved writing teacher behind Writing Down the Bones comes a treasury of personal stories reflecting a life filled with journeys—inner and outer—zigzagging around the world and home again Here, Natalie Goldberg shares those vivid moments that have wakened her to new ways of being. We follow alongside her mapless meanderings in the New Mexican desert and her pilgrimages to Bob Dylan’s birthplace and to Larry McMurtry’s dusty Texas ghost town of rare books. We feel her deep hunger while she sits zazen in a monastery in Japan, and her profound loss when she hears of the passing of a dear friend while teaching in the French countryside. Through it all, she remains grounded in a life informed by two constants: the practices of writing and of Zen. With humor and insight, Natalie encircles around the essential questions these paths compel her toward: Where does this life lead? Who are we? This is a book to be relished one awakening at a time. Each story is a reminder that no matter how hard the situation or desolate you may feel, spring will come again, breaking through a cold winter, bringing early yellow forsythia flowers. And the Great Spring of enlightenment—that sudden rush of acceptance, pain cracking open, obstructions shattering—will also burst forth.
Author | : Joshua C. Kendall |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780399156991 |
Download The Forgotten Founding Father Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Chronicles of the story of the first American-English dictionary's creator, revealing his close associations with George Washington and Ben Franklin as well as his authorship of an influential school primer and advocacy of a distinct American culture. 25,000 first printing.