An inconvenient alphabet : Ben Franklin & Noah Webster's spelling revolution / Beth Anderson ; illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley.
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TextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2018]Edition: First editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781534405554
- 1534405550
- Inconvenient alphabet : Ben Franklin and Noah Webster's spelling revolution
- Ben Franklin & Noah Webster's spelling revolution
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"Delightful, relatable, and eye-catchingly illustrated ." -- School Library Journal
" Deelytful and iloominaating for noo and seesuned reeders alyk." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Thought-provoking and entertaining." -- School Library Connection
"Engaging...A comprehensible, lively read." -- Publishers Weekly
Do you ever wish English was eez-ee-yer to spell? Ben Franklin and Noah Webster did! Debut author Beth Anderson and the New York Times bestselling illustrator of I Dissent , Elizabeth Baddeley, tell the story of two patriots and their attempt to revolutionize the English alphabet.
Once upon a revolutionary time, two great American patriots tried to make life easier. They knew how hard it was to spell words in English. They knew that sounds didn't match letters. They knew that the problem was an inconvenient English alphabet.
In 1786, Ben Franklin, at age eighty, and Noah Webster, twenty-eight, teamed up. Their goal? Make English easier to read and write. But even for great thinkers, what seems easy can turn out to be hard.
Children today will be delighted to learn that when they "sound out" words, they are doing eg-zakt-lee what Ben and Noah wanted.
"A Paula Wiseman Book."
Includes bibliographical references.
Ages 4-8.
Details the origins of Noah Webster's first American English dictionary and the struggles of Webster and Ben Franklin to help unify the new country through language in the 1780s.