Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
She tried. She failed.
In fact, the best she could muster was a short anecdote about an imaginary animal park in which the occupants revolted by exchanging their stripes and spots. It ran precisely 289 letters. She used the word yak three times.
Synopsis: 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.This is one of many favourite books and if you haven't read it yet, well, you're missing out on a really creative story! Say the title really fast, four or five times. Do you get it? Say it again. Oh come on!
*pangram: a sentence or phrase that includes all the letters of the alphabet
(I haven't done a review of this, how weird!)
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