Noah Webster and His Words

by Jeri Chase Ferris

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547390556
• ISBN13: 9780547390550
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.7" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4