| Alphamaniacs: Builders of 26 Wonders of the Word Contributor(s): Fleischman, Paul (Author), Sweet, Melissa (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 076369066X ISBN-13: 9780763690663 Publisher: Candlewick Studio OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Curiosities & Wonders - Juvenile Nonfiction | Language Arts - Composition & Creative Writing - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Literary |
| Dewey: 400 |
| Lexile Measure: 890 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 7.2" W x 9.1" (1.50 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Are you a word person? A curiosity seeker? An explorer? Take a look at these twenty-six extraordinary individuals for whom love of language is an extreme sport. Step right up and read the genuine stories of writers so intoxicated by the shapes and sound of language that they collected, dissected, and constructed verbal wonders of the most extraordinary kind. Jean-Dominique Bauby wrote his memoirs by blinking his left eyelid, unable to move the rest of his body. Frederic Cassidy was obsessed with the language of place, and after posing hundreds of questions to folks all over the United States, amassed (among other things) 176 words for dust bunnies. Georges Perec wrote a novel without using the letter e (so well that at least one reviewer didn't notice its absence), then followed with a novella in which e was the only vowel. A love letter to all those who love words, language, writing, writers, and stories, Alphamaniacs is a stunningly illustrated collection of mini-biographies about the most daring and peculiar of writers and their audacious, courageous, temerarious way with words. |