| Cover title |
Alpha maniacs |
| Contents |
The invitation -- Daniel Nussbaum -- Jean-Dominique Bauby -- Thomas Urquhart -- Jessie Little Doe Baird -- Marc Okrand -- Ignatius Donnelly -- Ross Eckler -- Frederic Cassidy -- Doris Cross -- Robert Shields -- Sven Jacobson -- Mike Gold -- David Wallace -- Bohumil Hrabal -- Corín Tellado -- Raymond Queneau -- Georges Perec -- Simon Vostre -- Howard Chace -- Robert McCormick -- Mary Ellen Solt -- A. A. Morrison -- Ernst Toch -- David Bryce -- Allen Read -- Ludwik Zamenhof. |
| Abstract |
This book profiles twenty-six authors with original and distinctive approaches to literature and language. From a man who used vanity license plates to tell stories and a woman who made new poems by subtracting letters from published works, to people who studied word origins and variations, this is a celebration of the adventurers who have explored language with a sense of curiosity and playfulness. -- Adapted from provided information and jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-141). |
| Interest grade level |
Grades 7-12 |
| Audience |
890 Lexile |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Fleischman, Paul. Alphamaniacs. First edition. Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press, 2020 9781536205954 |
| Genre/form | Illustrated works. |
| Genre/form | Creative nonfiction. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Juvenile works. |
| Genre/form | Trivia and miscellanea. |
| Genre/form | Creative nonfiction. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Illustrated works. |
| Genre/form | Trivia and miscellanea. |
| ISBN | 9780763690663 hardback |
| ISBN | 076369066X hardback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
