Displaying 1 of 1 2012 Format: Book Author: Ferris, Jeri. Title: Noah Webster and his words / by Jeri Chase Ferris ; illustrated by Vincent X. Kirsch. Publisher, Date: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. Description: 32 p. : col. ill. ; 22 x 29 cm. Summary: 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. Series: Houghton Mifflin Books for children. Subjects: Webster, Noah, 1758-1843 -- Juvenile literature. Lexicographers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Educators -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Other Author: Kirsch, Vincent X. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. LCCN: 2011013018 ISBN: 9780547390550 0547390556 Other Number: 711643334 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 343878 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: j BIO Webster Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
