There's a Monster in the Alphabet

An alphabet book which relates the legend of Cadmus, the Phoenician hero who brought the alphabet to Greece and slew a dragon there.

First sentence: 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.

Year

2002

Language

English

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin

Editions

1

Pages

40

ISBN

9780618221400

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