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There's a Monster in the Alphabet Hardback - 2002
by James Rumford
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According to Herodotus, an Ancient Greek historian, a Phoenician named Cadmus brought the alphabet to Greece. In the ancient myths, Cadmus was a hero who fought a ferocious monster and founded the city of Thebes. Cadmus was so famous that his deeds were told and retold throughout the ancient world.In this modern retelling, James Rumford uses the alphabet that Cadmus brought to Greece to recount the hero’s own story. Part truth, part fancy, this different kind of alphabet book takes its reader on a journey to the distant past, when our letters were not just marks to record sounds but were pictures of eyes and hands, doors and fences, giant teeth and . . . monsters.
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According to Herodotus, an Ancient Greek historian, a Phoenician named Cadmus brought the alphabet to Greece. In the ancient myths, Cadmus was a hero who fought a ferocious monster and founded the city of Thebes. Cadmus was so famous that his deeds were told and retold throughout the ancient world.
In this modern retelling, James Rumford uses the alphabet that Cadmus brought to Greece to recount the hero’s own story. Part truth, part fancy, this different kind of alphabet book takes its reader on a journey to the distant past, when our letters were not just marks to record sounds but were pictures of eyes and hands, doors and fences, giant teeth and . . . monsters.
In this modern retelling, James Rumford uses the alphabet that Cadmus brought to Greece to recount the hero’s own story. Part truth, part fancy, this different kind of alphabet book takes its reader on a journey to the distant past, when our letters were not just marks to record sounds but were pictures of eyes and hands, doors and fences, giant teeth and . . . monsters.
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When the alphabet was new, the ancient ones said that A was a picture of an ox, B was a house, and C had the curves of a boomerang.
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- Title There's a Monster in the Alphabet
- Author James Rumford
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 40
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston
- Publication date September 30, 2002
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780618221400 / 0618221409
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 11.26 x 8.79 x 0.4 in (28.60 x 22.33 x 1.02 cm)
- Age range 06 to 09 years
- Grade levels 1 - 4
- Category Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction
- Library of Congress subjects Alphabet, Mythology, Greek
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001039893
- Dewey Decimal Code 398.209
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