Noah Webster

Catherine Reef

Noah Webster
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Country
United States
Published
25 August 2015
Pages
224
ISBN
9780544129832

Noah Webster

Catherine Reef

Noah Webster may be best remembered the enormous and ambitious task of writing his famous dictionary, but for him, this accomplishment was a means to an end. His true goal was to streamline the language spoken in our newly formed country so that it could be used as a force to bring people together and be a source of national pride. Though people laughed at his ideas, Webster never doubted himself. In the end, his so-called foolish notions achieved just what he had hoped. Here, in the only account of Noah Webster for teens, the seasoned biographer Catherine Reef guides us through Webster’s remarkable life, from boyhood on a Connecticut farm through the fight for American independence to his days as a writer and political activist who greatly influenced our Founding Fathers and the direction of the young United States. AGES: 10-14 AUTHOR: Catherine Reef has written many highly praised biographies for young people, including ‘The Bronte Sisters’, which the New York Times described as ‘beautifully written … with rich and evocative language.
Visit her website at www.catherinereef.com.

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