Noah Webster and His Words

Clever, playful introduction to the man and his accomplishments.

This is a very approachable biograpy on Noah Webster. The pictures are unusual, but the book is well done. I liked the use of the definitions throughout the text. I certainly learned a lot about Webster from reading this.

This was one of my favorite books I have read so far! The first reason this book positively caught my attention is for the way it strings definitions into the text. Because Noah Webster is the original author of the Webster’s Dictionary, the author must have known he would have to be creative

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with the definitions in the book, and he was! All throughout the story, if there was a long or obscure word that may be difficult for young readers, the author wrote it out just as it would appear in the dictionary. For example, when the text was talking about Webster always thought we was right ever since he was a child, the author wrote Webster was “’full of CON-FI-DENCE’ [noun: belief that one is right].” The author continued this trend for words like “EM-BAR-RASS-MENT,” “EX-PEN-SIVE,” and “SUR-REN-DERED.” I loved this because it was so creative to do, especially when talking about the individual who created the dictionary and it kept my interest all throughout the story. I also adored this book for its choice of font. The font that was used throughout the entire book looked as if it was written with a quill pen. This was also a very creative aspect of the book because Webster was depicted using a quill pen several times throughout the book and it would have been the writing instrument that he used to write his books. This creativity truly kept me reading in anticipation for the next page, and it even motivated me to read the timeline that was located in the back of the book which is something I would never do on my own unless I was conducting research on Webster. Overall, the big idea of this book was to provide the reader with a timeline and highlights of the man who created the dictionary that, more than likely, the reader has held in their hand at one point in their life.

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Noah Webster's life and history is written and illustrated in an easy to understand format, filled with lively and warm pictures that show his life, work, and importance to America. This book would be great to share with all ages. Themes of this book include, but are not limited to, perseverance,

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hard work, importance of knowledge, etc. In the back of the book is a timeline of Noah's life, as well as important dates happening in America. Noah worked his whole life to learn and teach about words and to unite Americans in one common language, embodied by the words he defined and made it accessible for others to learn from.

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This book is about Noah Webster, his life and his impact on American culture. Noah was born on a farm and came from a long line of farmers but he had an early love of the written word and though his father was not happy about it he left for Yale at 15 years old. As he became an adult he went into

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teaching but along with his love of words he was passionate about unifying America. He wrote school textbooks and spellers and his final work was the American Dictionary which took him 20 years to write.

I learned so much from this book. I had no idea the influence of Noah Webster. So much history in this short little book! I loved the illustrations which are pencil drawing and watercolor. I loved the dictionary style definition woven throughout the text and I love the timeline of his life at the end of this book. Excellent, informative and a wonderful to learn about American history.

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