Mark Dunn’s book, Ella Minnow Pea, pushes literary conventions.
Nevin Nollop left the islanders of Nollop with the treasured legacy of his pangram the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. But as the letters begin to crumble on the monumental inscription, the island’s council forbids the use of the lost letters and silence threatens Ella and her family.
The plot is conveyed through notes sent between various characters, but as the story proceeds, more and more letters of the alphabet have to be excluded from their writing… For fun, try saying the title out loud!
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