Ella Minnow Pea - BookWyrm for Social Yetis

eBook

english language

Published 2014 by Vintage.

ISBN:: 978-1-101-91177-8

A hilarious and moving story of one girl’s fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal phrase containing all the letters of the alphabet, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island’s Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is "a love letter to alphabetarians and logomaniacs everywhere" (Myla Goldberg, bestselling author of Bee Season).

12 editions

Jon Fincher reviewed Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

Charming little book

4 stars

I wasn't sure what to expect -- this isn't my normal type of book to read, but my grandmother's name was Ella, which is why I picked this up.

It became difficult to read around halfway through, when letters started to become scarce and the author needed to figure out how to get around that. There is some interesting foreshadowing around that time, but you need to wait until the end to see that come to fruition.

I wasn't sure what to expect -- this isn't my normal type of book to read, but my grandmother's name was Ella, which is why I picked this up.

It became difficult to read around halfway through, when letters started to become scarce and the author needed to figure out how to get around that. There is some interesting foreshadowing around that time, but you need to wait until the end to see that come to fruition.