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Ella Minnow Pea

A Novel in Letters

By Mark Dunn

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| School & Library Binding | 9781417640126

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Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, anContinue

Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island’s Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is both a hilarious and moving story of one girl’s fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere.

*pangram: a sentence or phrase that includes all the letters of the alphabet

Critics

  • The law of the letter

    'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog': almost everyone knows that this is - or is anyway believed to be - one of the shortest sentences in the English language to use all 26 letters of the alphabet (although the simple variant 'A quick brown ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Ella Minnow Pea

    ’Ella Minnow Pea’ is a good concept novel, well worth, I believe, the author’s probably considerable time spent penning it. But the reader not interested or able to enjoy it for what it is (a rather weak story laden with drippings of wordplay) may fe ... (read full critics)

    laurahird published on Fri, 10 Sep 2010

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  • The quick brown ...

    ... fox jumps over the lazy dog.

    A whole society built on this sentence and how it disintegrates when the letters of the revered sentence start falling one by one.

    A witty and interesting read!

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  • English Books
  • School & Library Binding
  • ISBN-10: 141764012X
  • ISBN-13: 9781417640126
  • Publisher: Rebound by Sagebrush
  • Pub date: Sep 01, 2002
  • Also available as: Paperback and Others
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