Ox, House, Stick: The History of Our Alphabet

Robb, Don

ISBN 10: 1570916098 / ISBN 13: 9781570916090

Verlag: Charlesbridge, 2007

Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00110323492

Inhaltsangabe:

Presents the origins of each letter of the English alphabet, from the pictorial drawings of the ancient Egyptians, through the changes to script by trading Phoenicians to the final classical letters of the Greeks and Romans.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Don Robb began his second career in educational publishing after seven years as a teacher. After graduating from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he studied history and political science, Don taught Spanish, French, and English as a second language at the high school level in Toledo, Ohio, then later at a junior high school in Hackensack, New Jersey.

His first job in publishing was as a foreign language consultant for Holt, Rinehart. He went on to serve in a variety of editorial and marketing capacities there, and at Houghton Mifflin Co., where he became a vice president. He left that position to join Charlesbridge (then Mastery Education Corporation) in 1981.

Don is an avid reader and a writer. His particular interests are history--especially American history--science non-fiction, and mysteries.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Ox, House, Stick: The History of Our Alphabet
Verlag: Charlesbridge
Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
Einband: Hardcover
Illustrator: Smith, Anne
Zustand: Good