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-- Noah Webster and his words2012, Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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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-- Noah Webster and his words2012., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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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[2015]., Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Noah Webster may be best remembered the enormous and ambitious task of writing his famous dictionary, but for him, this accomplishment was a means to an end. His true goal was to streamline the language spoken in our newly formed country so that it could be used as a force to bring people together and be a source of national pride. Though people laughed at his ideas, Webster never doubted himself. In the end, his so-called foolish notions achieved just what he had hoped.
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[2015]., Pre-adolescent, Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: B WEBSTER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A biography on Noah Webster, a controversial political activist, the primary shaper of the American language, and author of the Blue-Backed Spellers and the famous dictionary that bears his name. Illustrated with black-and-white archival images"--Provided by publisher.
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2015., Adolescent, Clarion Books Call No: B WEBSTER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Describes the life of Noah Webster, his work as a writer and activist, and his creation of a dictionary that united Americans, influenced the new country's Founding Fathers, and shaped the United States.
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c2009., Primary, Calkins Creek Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This book is an exploration of the life and work of Noah Webster, which discusses his promotion of a living American language and universal education for all, career as a newspaper publisher, and creation of America's first insurance company.
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1999., HarperPerennial Call No: 423 .092 Edition: First HarperPerennial edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Introduces the story of Dr. Minor, American inmate of a British asylum, who volunteered and corresponded with Oxford English Dictionary editor Murray, providing thousands of definition quotations for the project which was unlike any source of the time.
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Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A picture book biography of Peter Mark Roget, the creator of Roget's Thesaurus, one of the most widely used reference books ever published.
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2014., Juvenile, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: A picture book biography describing how Peter Roget, who loved words and books, began writing lists of words and organizing them so he could find exactly the right word when he needed it. Recounts how Roget's lists grew into a world-famous reference book.
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2014., Juvenile, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Call No: B ROG Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A picture book biography describing how Peter Roget, who loved words and books, began writing lists of words and organizing them so he could find exactly the right word when he needed it. Recounts how Roget's lists grew into a world-famous reference book.
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2014., Pre-adolescent, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A picture book biography of Peter Mark Roget, the creator of Roget's Thesaurus, one of the most widely used reference books ever published.
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2014., Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A picture book biography of Peter Mark Roget, the creator of Roget's Thesaurus, one of the most widely used reference books ever published.
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2014., Pre-adolescent, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A picture book biography of Peter Mark Roget, the creator of Roget's Thesaurus, one of the most widely used reference books ever published.
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2014., Pre-adolescent, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Call No: PIC B ROGET Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A picture book biography of Peter Mark Roget, the creator of Roget's Thesaurus, one of the most widely used reference books ever published.
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-- Roget and his thesaurus2014., Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The story of "shy young Peter Mark Roget, [for whom] books were the best companions--and it wasn't long before Peter began writing his own book. But he didn't write stories; he wrote lists. Peter took his love for words and turned it to organizing ideas and finding exactly the right word to express just what he thought. His lists grew and grew, eventually turning into one of the most important reference books of all time"--Amazon.com.
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2015, Primary, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: JNF007030 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A picture book biography of Noah Webster"--Provided by publisher.
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2015., Juvenile, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a picture book biography of Noah Webster and how he came up with the idea to invent his now-famous Webster's Dictionary.