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Noah Webster, Father of the Dictionary
Noah Webster, Father of the Dictionary
Noah Webster
An American Dictionary of the English Language
Noah Webster and His Words
Author: Jeri Chase Ferris
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012-10-23
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 0547935412
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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].
The Forgotten Founding Father
Author: Joshua C. Kendall
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780399156991
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Noah Webster, Father of the Dictionary ... Illustrated by I.B. Hazelton. [With a Portrait.].
W Is For Webster
Author: Tracey Fern
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published: 2015-11-10
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1466895101
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From an early age, Noah Webster was an odd fellow who liked to talk big and loved learning. He thought America needed its own national language and knew he was just the man to create it. He started with a speller, including everyday words like "scab," "grub," and "mop," and moved on to create a small dictionary. He rode around on a horse, selling his books by hand. Then Noah decided to compile a complete and comprehensive dictionary of American English. He thought the book would take him five years to finish. It took twenty, but his dictionary today is the second-most printed book in the English language.
Noah Webster and His Words
Author: Jeri Ferris
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 0547390556
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An innovative picture-book biography about the man who wrote American history by creating the first dictionary for the United States. Full color.
