Ella Minnow Pea

There's a small island off the coast of North Carolina where the written word is worshipped with a reverence saved for Deity and movie stars. The town is named for the man who created a sentence that uses all 26 letters of the alphabet in 35 letters.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

When letters on a statue erected to this man begin to fall, the town elders decide that it is fate. As the letters fall, they are removed from the language and writings of the town under penalty of banishment.

As you read Ella Minnow Pea, which is a collection of letters between townspeople, letters will disappear from the book. What was once . . .

We wish you well with everything you try to achieve in these trying final days

becomes

We wish ewe well with ephereething ewe trie to asheeph in these trieing phinal taes.

You will never appreciate the written word more than you will as you read this book. It brings such a vigor to exercising your vocabulary, that you will wish your volume of words met those of Shakespeare just for the ability to use them all!