[lg policy] [Edling] 'A Little Book' Helps Kids Learn To Love Language

[Harold Schiffman]

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National 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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