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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     School Library Journal Review     More Content       More by this author     Anderson, Beth, 1954-     Subjects     Webster, Noah, 1758-1843 -- Juvenile fiction.     Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Juvenile fiction.     English language -- United States -- Orthography and spelling -- Juvenile fiction.     Spelling reform -- Juvenile fiction.     Americanisms -- Juvenile fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Anderson, Beth, 1954-       by title:      An inconvenient alph...       by call number:      FICTION AND     Search the Web     Anderson, Beth, 1954-     Webster, Noah, 1758-1843 -- Juvenile fiction.     Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Juvenile fiction.     English language -- United States -- Orthography and spelling -- Juvenile fiction.     Spelling reform -- Juvenile fiction.     Americanisms -- Juvenile fiction.       MARC Display

An inconvenient alphabet : Ben Franklin & Noah Webster's spelling revolution / written by Beth Anderson ; illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley. by Anderson, Beth, 1954- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2018. Call #: FICTION AND Subjects Webster, Noah, 1758-1843 -- Juvenile fiction.   Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Juvenile fiction.   English language -- United States -- Orthography and spelling -- Juvenile fiction.   Spelling reform -- Juvenile fiction.   Americanisms -- Juvenile fiction. ISBN:  9781534405554 (hardcover) Edition:  First edition. Description:  1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm. Notes:  "A Paula Wiseman book." Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  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. Genre:  School age picture book. Other authors:  Baddeley, Elizabeth. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Captain William Spry Public Library School Age Picture Books FICTION AND Childrens Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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