Biting the Wax Tadpole

Biting the Wax TadpoleBy: Elizabeth Little When Chinese shopkeepers tried to find a written equivalent of Coca Cola, one set of characters they chose was pronounced ke kou ke la. It sounded right, but it literally translated as bite the wax tadpole. Language, like travel, is always stranger than we expect and often more beautiful than we imagine. In Biting the Wax Tadpole Elizabeth Little takes a decidedly unstuffy and accessible tour of grammar via the languages of the

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she's only the size of a key chain

This volume collects four of them

She was an ordinary Muslim girl who wanted to attend school

Girls and boys ages 1 to 4 will giggle with delight when they lift the flaps of this sturdy interactive board book to discover who's hiding

Ruthie and Jack follow the clues to seventeenth-century England and the Brownlow house

middle-class

A scathing attack on the revolution’s attitudes to existing institutions

and most importantly: funny

and readers will be caught up in the terror and suspense alongside Hazel as she fights to save her friends and herself