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A review by oashackelford
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
4.0
On the Island of Nollop the people venerate a man who was named Nollop for the sentence that he created. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. A sentence that contains all of the letters in the English alphabet. There is even a statue of him in the town square with his sentence written in tiles beneath him. One day the tiles start to fall off of the statue, which the town council takes to mean that Nollop, from beyond the grave, wants the people to stop using the fallen letters entirely. One by one as the letters disappear the people have more and more trouble communicating with each other until the book becomes almost unreadable.
I thought that this was such an interesting premise for a book and I was impressed that the author was able to communicate so effectively with so few letters farther into the book than I would have been able to. Watching the people in the book become more and more desperate as they lost their letters was funny and I wasn't sure how the book would end. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves language and finds it interesting.
I thought that this was such an interesting premise for a book and I was impressed that the author was able to communicate so effectively with so few letters farther into the book than I would have been able to. Watching the people in the book become more and more desperate as they lost their letters was funny and I wasn't sure how the book would end. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves language and finds it interesting.