Chitchat: Celebrating the World's Languages

by Jude Isabella

Award-winning children's science writer Jude Isabella has compiled everything a young reader would ever want to know about language into one accessible, visually stunning book. In lively text, both spoken and written language are explored, including: a basic history of human's use of language; how individuals learn language as babies, and why; how writing systems and alphabets differ; the many sources and uses of slang through the years; how languages...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554537878
• ISBN13: 9781554537877
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Kids Can Press
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7