I am delighted to bring you this review of a book by my friend Jeri Chase Ferris. It is an innovative biography of Noah Webster and his words, showing and telling about his life and times and how he came to write the first school books and the first American dictionary. He was quite the character, Jeri engagingly demonstrates as Noah follows his passion to unite the use of American English as an act of patriotism and more. Because there is so much embedded in this fairly short book, I've focused the review primarily on Webster's lifelong quest to write his namesake dictionary and the art to keep my review short. Wonderful, playful illustrations complete and complement the story. PS YouTube usually gives you 3 thumbnail images to choose from for the initial video still, but for some reason it insists on keeping this terrible mid-expression image, which is not reflective of my feelings about this book at all! At least it makes me laugh and it does show one of the delightful illustrations. Still struggling to get the lighting right in our new home.
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We are so excited to be mixing things up at CBA, beginning with some delicious additions to the Blogfish. Meet our awesome bloggers!!
Here's our lineup: 1st Mondays begin with awesome Aussie debut author and former student Amanda Lieber who will be focusing on Aussie kidlit. 2nd Mondays will feature super smart Melissa Stoller whose career is taking off with several new books. 3rd Mondays will feature our new blogger coming soon. 4th Mondays features new blogger, the fabulous Brentom Jackson, who has a beautiful approach to blogging. And 5th Mondays we'll be taking a break Archives
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