Age
6-9
Grade
-2-2
James Rumford
There's a Monster in the Alphabet
Hardcover
(HMH Books for Young Readers Sept. 30, 2002)
, 1st Printing edition
According to Herodotus, an Ancient Greek historian, a Phoenician named Cadmus brought the alphabet to Greece. In the ancient myths, Cadmus was a hero who fought a ferocious monster and founded the city of Thebes. Cadmus was so famous that his deeds were told and retold throughout the ancient world.In this modern retelling, James Rumford uses the alphabet that Cadmus brought to Greece to recount the hero’s own story. Part truth, part fancy, this different kind of alphabet book takes its reader on a journey to the distant past, when our letters were not just marks to record sounds but were pictures of eyes and hands, doors and fences, giant teeth and . . . monsters.
- ISBN
- 0618221409 / 9780618221400
- Pages
- 40
- Weight
- 12.8 oz.
- Dimensions
- 9.0 x 0.2 in.
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