Noah Webster & his words /
A portrait of the man who wrote the first U.S. dictionary traces his youth as a bookish Connecticut farm boy and his twenty-year effort to write the all-American dictionary that was published in 1828 when he was seventy years old.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2012.
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| Series: | Houghton Mifflin Books for children
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| Summary: | A portrait of the man who wrote the first U.S. dictionary traces his youth as a bookish Connecticut farm boy and his twenty-year effort to write the all-American dictionary that was published in 1828 when he was seventy years old. |
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| Item Description: | "The illustrations were made with ink, watercolor, and graphite."--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780547390550 (hbk.) 0547390556 (hbk.) |