Write Around the World: The Story of How and Why We Learned to Write

Book Description
In this lively history of writing, six goofy birds -- a penguin, two toucans, an owl, and two chickens -- team up to tour the world of writing: how it developed, where alphabets came from, and the origins of international languages such as Latin, Esperanto, and Morse Code, and much more. They
begin their time-traveling journey in 4,000 B.C.E. with the Sumerians, who invented pictograms out of the necessity to keep trading records. One of the toucans flies on a kite tail to China to learn about characters, the penguin walks like an Egyptian in full headdress across the desert sands to
uncover hieroglyphs, and then there's a mad rush of characters who pass the idea of an alphabet around Europe and the Near East. Delightfully illustrated in full color, Write Around the World includes light-hearted and informative sections on the world's alphabets, languages, handwriting,
calligraphy, typefaces and punctuation, icons, and secret codes as well as a glossary of important words.

Write around the World: The Story of How and Why We Learned to Write ,Vivian French,Ross Collins,Oxford University Press, USA,0195219244,Children's 9-12 - language Arts,Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction,Children: Grades 4-6,History,History - General,Juvenile Nonfiction,Juvenile literature,Language Arts - General,Signs and symbols,Writing,Juvenile Nonfiction / History / General,Linguistics

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