The Disappearing Alphabet
Title | The Disappearing Alphabet PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Wilbur |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 35 |
Release | 1998-09-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0547538774 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur turns his sharp eye to the noble alphabet and imagines what life would be like without these twenty-six little--but powerful--letters. Packed with humor and witty subtleties, the verse in this captivating picture book is splendidly matched by Caldecott Medal winner David Diaz's hilariously clever illustrations.
The Disappearing Alphabet
Title | The Disappearing Alphabet PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Wilbur |
Publisher | Paw Prints |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009-08-18 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781442069985 |
Packed with humor and witty subtitles, a captivating picture book illustrates an imaginative story of what life would be like without the twenty-six letters of the alphabet. Reprint.
Ella Minnow Pea
Title | Ella Minnow Pea PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Dunn |
Publisher | MP Publishing |
Pages | 165 |
Release | 2010-05-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1596929995 |
An epistolary novel set on a fictional island off the South Carolina coastline, 'Ella Minnow Pea' brings readers to the hometown of Nevin Nollop, inventor of the pangram 'The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog'. Deified for his achievement in life, Nevin has been honored in death with a monument featuring his famous phrase. One day, however, the letter 'Z' falls from the monument, and some of the islanders interpret the missing tile as a message from beyond the grave. The letter 'Z' is banned from use. On an island where the residents pride them-selves on their love of language, this is seen as a tragedy. They are still reeling from the shock when another tile falls. And then another... In his charming debut, first published in 2001, Mark Dunn took readers on a journey through the eyes of Ella Minnow Pea, a young woman forced to create another clever turn of phrase in order to save the islanders’ beloved language.
The Letters are Lost!
Title | The Letters are Lost! PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Campbell Ernst |
Publisher | Viking Juvenile |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Alphabet |
ISBN | 9780670863365 |
When a set of alphabet blocks disappears, the hunt is on to put them back in order.
Detective Dog and the Disappearing Doughnuts
Title | Detective Dog and the Disappearing Doughnuts PDF eBook |
Author | Valerie Garfield |
Publisher | Teaching Resources |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780439165273 |
Dozens of doughnuts have disappeared from Dave's Diner. Who took them ? Detective Dog is on the trail !.
Disappearing Earth
Title | Disappearing Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Julia Phillips |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2019-05-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0525520422 |
One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year National Book Award Finalist Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize Finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award National Best Seller "Splendidly imagined . . . Thrilling" --Simon Winchester "A genuine masterpiece" --Gary Shteyngart Spellbinding, moving--evoking a fascinating region on the other side of the world--this suspenseful and haunting story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer. One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls--sisters, eight and eleven--go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters, all connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty--densely wooded forests, open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska--and into a region as complex as it is alluring, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging, and through a young writer's virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.
Achoo! Bang! Crash!
Title | Achoo! Bang! Crash! PDF eBook |
Author | Ross MacDonald |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2003-08-19 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780761329008 |
Words about sound and noise illustrate the letters of the alphabet.