Noah Webster's Fighting Words

Noah Webster's Fighting Words
Author: Tracy Maurer
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-02-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781512428391
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Noah Websterfamous for writing the first dictionary of the English language as spoken in the United Stateswas known in his day for his bold ideas and strong opinions about, well, everything. Spelling. Politics. Laws. You name it, he had something to say about it. He even commented on his own opinions! With a red pencil in hand, Noah often marked up work that he had already published. So when Noah's ghost came across this new picture book biography, he couldn't help but make a few suggestions!

Noah Webster's Fighting Words

Noah Webster's Fighting Words
Author: Tracy Maurer
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2017
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1467794104
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Describes the life and times of the man made famous for writing the first dictionary of the English language.

Noah Webster's Fighting Words

Noah Webster's Fighting Words
Author: Tracy Nelson Maurer
Publisher: Millbrook Press ™
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2017-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1512438693
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Noah Webster, famous for writing the first dictionary of the English language as spoken in the United States, was known in his day for his bold ideas and strong opinions about, well, everything. Spelling, politics, laws, you name it—he had something to say about it. He even commented on his own opinions! With a red pencil in hand, Noah often marked up work that he had already published. So who edited this book? It certainly looks like the ghost of the great American author and patriot picked up a pencil once again to comment on his own biography!

The Dictionary Wars

The Dictionary Wars
Author: Peter Martin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691210179
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Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.

Noah Webster and His Words

Noah Webster and His Words
Author: Jeri Chase Ferris
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2012-10-23
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0547935412
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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 illustrated account shines a light on early American history and the life of a man who could not rest until he’d achieved his dream. An illustrated chronology of Webster’s life makes this a picture perfect bi-og-ra-phy [noun: a written history of a person's life].

Lady Bird Johnson, That's Who!

Lady Bird Johnson, That's Who!
Author: Tracy Nelson Maurer
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2021-02-23
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1250828651
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Lady Bird Johnson, That's Who! is Tracy Nelson Maurer's lively picture book biography of Lady Bird Johnson, with a focus on her environmentalist passion and legacy as First Lady. Who fought to stop pollution? Who helped make America cleaner and greener? Lady Bird Johnson, That's Who! Claudia Alta Taylor was a lonely girl, shy as a butterfly growing up in Texas. She never dreamed she'd blossom into a visionary leader whose love for wildflowers, beautiful landscapes, and building community compelled her to lead the effort to combat pollution in the United States. A lifelong environmentalist, Lady Bird Johnson embraced her platform as First Lady to promote policy that beautified America’s roadways, waterways and parks, inspiring people to take pride in the places they live. With elements of women’s history, civics, and conservationism, this is a timely and informative picture book biography.

Samuel Morse, That's Who!

Samuel Morse, That's Who!
Author: Tracy Nelson Maurer
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2019-06-25
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1250618398
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Writer Tracy Nelson Maurer and illustrator El Primo Ramón present a lively picture book biography of Samuel Morse that highlights how he revolutionized modern technology. Back in the 1800s, information traveled slowly. Who would dream of instant messages? Samuel Morse, that’s who! Who traveled to France, where the famous telegraph towers relayed 10,000 possible codes for messages depending on the signal arm positions—only if the weather was clear? Who imagined a system that would use electric pulses to instantly carry coded messages between two machines, rain or shine? Long before the first telephone, who changed communication forever? Samuel Morse, that’s who! This dynamic and substantive biography celebrates an early technology pioneer.

The Forgotten Founding Father

The Forgotten Founding Father
Author: Joshua C. Kendall
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780399156991
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Chronicles of the story of the first American-English dictionary's creator, revealing his close associations with George Washington and Ben Franklin as well as his authorship of an influential school primer and advocacy of a distinct American culture. 25,000 first printing.

John Deere, That's Who!

John Deere, That's Who!
Author: Tracy Nelson Maurer
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2017-03-28
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1250158311
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Back in the 1830s, who was a young blacksmith from Vermont, about to make his mark on American history? John Deere, that’s who! Who moved to Illinois, where farmers were struggling to plow through the thick, rich soil they called gumbo? Who tinkered and tweaked and tested until he invented a steel plow that sliced into the prairie easy as you please? Long before the first tractor, who changed farming forever? John Deere, that’s who! Beautiful illustrations—including spectacular landscapes—reflect the time period and bring John Deere's remarkable story to life.

The Devil and Daniel Webster

The Devil and Daniel Webster
Author: Stephen Vincent Benet
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1943-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780822203032
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THE STORY: Jabez Stone, young farmer, has just been married, and the guests are dancing at his wedding. But Jabez carries a burden, for he knows that, having sold his soul to the Devil, he must, on the stroke of midnight, deliver it up to him. Shortly before twelve Mr. Scratch, lawyer, enters and the company is thunderstruck. Jabez bids his guests begone; he has made his bargain and will pay the price. His bride, however, stands by him, and so will Daniel Webster, who has come for the festivities. Webster takes the case. But Scratch is a lawyer himself and out-argues the statesman. Webster demands a jury of real Americans, living or dead. Very well, agrees the Devil, he shall have them, and ghosts appear. Webster thunders, but to no avail, and at last realizing Scratch can better him on technical grounds, he changes his tactics and appeals to the ghostly jury, men who have retained some love of country. Rising to the height of his powers, Webster performs the miracle of winning a verdict of Not Guilty.