A Chartreuse Leotard in a Magenta Limosine : And Other Words After People & Places

Rating:
Summary: Great Resource
Review: A great resource for classrooms! Studying word origins can be amazingly fun! This book is the perfect resource!

Rating:
Summary: Great Resource
Review: A great resource for classrooms! Studying word origins can be amazingly fun! This book is the perfect resource!

Rating:
Summary: A perfect way to draw kids into non-fiction
Review: This is a splendid gift idea for curious kids of all ages. Even kids too young to read comfortably on their own will sit still for these compact, highly readable stories about the origin of eponyms and toponyms. Because each colorful history is just about a paragraph long, they can make fine bathroom reading. The truly wonderful thing about eponyms and toponyms is how they aid recall of historical facts. I'm sure my son won't forget where the word berserk came from: "bear-sarks" or "bear coats", a term used to describe those wild Norse warriors who frazzled so many nerves a thousand years ago.