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Ella Minnow Pea: Illustrated Gift Edition - Community Reviews back

by Mark Dunn, Tim Brennan
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Constantly Moving the Bookmark
Constantly Moving the Bookmark rated it 17 years ago
As letters drop out of the famous "Quick fox, lazy dog" typing sentence, a village is forced to do without those same letters in day to day life. Entertaining and thought provoking. Highly recommend this book.
Readz
Readz rated it 19 years ago
Great concept - imagine a world without being able to use all the letters in the alphabet. It gets pretty challenging to read towards the end, but it's such a cool idea!
What I Happen to Be Reading At the Moment
Debating between three and four stars, but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. A novel in letters about a small town so superstitious that when letters start falling of the state of the town's founder (and also an originator of a very famous pangram), they start enforcing what are essentially blu...
DeFor
DeFor rated it 56 years ago
When writing without a few letters of the alphabet, creative linguistic acrobatics become necessary. This book started out with so much unnecessarily odd phrasing, that the change was hardly noticeable.But when you remove enough letter, it degrades into virtual nonsense. I think that may be why the ...
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