'A Little Book' Helps Kids Learn To Love Language

[Francis Hult]

Nationa Public Radio

 

'A Little Book' Helps Kids Learn To Love Language

 

Some linguists lament that in the digital age, once-sacred grammar skills will be lost in the shorthand shuffle of texting and tweeting. But language expert David Crystal isn't worried. In A Little Book Of Language, he writes about how kids actually do love words. The book, geared toward young people, traces the history and the future of language.

 

A Little Book Of Language is an echo of an earlier title, E.H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World. Gombrich was inspired to write the book because "a little girl wrote to him and said, 'Please tell me about the history of everything,' " Crystal explains in a conversation with NPR's Neal Conan.

 

Full story:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127860115

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