An Inconvenient Alphabet: Ben Franklin & Noah Webster's Spelling Revolution,Used

An Inconvenient Alphabet: Ben Franklin & Noah Webster's Spelling Revolution,Used

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Delightful, relatable, and eyecatchingly illustrated. School Library JournalDeelytful and iloominaating for noo and seesuned reeders alyk. Kirkus ReviewsThoughtprovoking and entertaining. School Library ConnectionEngaging...A comprehensible, lively read. Publishers WeeklyDo you ever wish English was eezeeyer 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 didnt match letters. They knew that the problem was an inconvenient English alphabet.In 1786, Ben Franklin, at age eighty, and Noah Webster, twentyeight, 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 egzaktlee what Ben and Noah wanted.

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