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Noah Webster's Fighting Words
by Tracy Nelson Maurer
Illustrator: Mircea Catusanu
Ages: 9+
Published: 2017
Publisher: Millbrook Press/Lerner
ISBN: 978-1-4677-9410-7
Keywords: Dictionaries, American History, English Language
This witty picture book focuses on Noah Webster, who wrote the first American English dictionary, and included editorial comments by his fictional ghost. Lively collage-style illustrations. Back matter.