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A hornbook (horn-book) is a single-sided alphabet tablet, which served from medieval times as a primer for study, [1] and sometimes included vowel combinations, numerals or short verse. [2] The hornbook was in common use in England around 1450, [3] but may have originated more than a century earlier. [4] The term (hornbook) has been applied to ...
An alphabet book is a type of children's book giving basic instruction in an alphabet. Intended for young children, alphabet books commonly use pictures, simple language and alliteration to aid language learning. Alphabet books are published in several languages, and some distinguish the capitals and lower case letters in a given alphabet.
The New England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American colonies. It became the most successful educational textbook published in 17th-century colonial United States and it became the foundation of most schooling before the 1790s. In the 17th century, the schoolbooks in use had been Bibles brought over from England.
ISBN. 978-0-89296-239-6. The Harlan Ellison Hornbook is a 1990 compilation of columns written by Harlan Ellison for several counterculture newspapers in Los Angeles, mostly for the Los Angeles Free Press and the L.A. Weekly News in 1972 and 1973. Many of the essays are of an autobiographical nature as Ellison writes about particularly colorful ...
In lawyer lingo, hornbook law or black-letter law is a fundamental and well-accepted legal principle that does not require any further explanation, since a hornbook is a primer of basics. Law is the rule which establish that a principle, provision, references, inference, observation, etc. may not require further explanation or clarification ...
Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners [3] [4] [5] Year Category Title Writer Illustrator Ref. 1967 Fiction The Little Fishes: Erik Christian Haugaard: Picture Book London Bridge Is Falling Down: Peter Spier: Peter Spier: 1968 Fiction The Spring Rider: John Lawson: Picture Book Tikki Tikki Tembo: Arlene Mosel: Blair Lent: 1969 Fiction A Wizard ...
Harlan Ellison Reads Harlan Ellison – released 1976, Alternate World Recordings [20] Blood!: The Life and Future Times of Jack the Ripper – Alternate World Recordings, 1977. On the Road with Ellison Volume 1 – released 1983, reissued 2001 on Deep Shag Records.
The Horn Book Magazine, founded in Boston in 1924, is the oldest bimonthly magazine dedicated to reviewing children's literature. [1] It began as a "suggestive purchase list" prepared by Bertha Mahony and Elinor Whitney Field , proprietors of the country's first bookstore for children, The Bookshop for Boys and Girls.