Other-Wordly - Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World

Informationen zum Autor Kelsey Garrity-Riley studied illustration at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She lives in Brooklyn. Yee-Lum Mak loved long words best as a kid, but she’s since learned that lovely words come in many shapes. She lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext tsundoku: (noun, Japanese) buying books and not reading them; letting books pile up unread on shelves or floors or nightstands tartle: (verb, Scots) to hesitate while introducing or meeting someone because you have forgotten their name. Discover these and many other words to surprise, delight, and enamor. Terms for the particular grace of mended things, for the urge to peer into other people's windows, for the sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees. An irresistible gift for lovers of words and those lost for words alike. Zusammenfassung Discover words to surprise, delight, and enamor. Learn terms for the sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees, for dancing awkwardly but with relish, and for the look shared by two people who each wish the other would speak first. Other-Wordly is an irresistible gift for lovers of words and those lost for words alike.

Product details

• Authors: Kelsey Garrity-Riley, Yee-Lum Mak, Mak Yee-Lum
• Assisted by: Kelsey Garrity-Riley (Illustration), Garrity-Riley Kelsey (Illustration), Yee-Lum Mak (Illustration)
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 99
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.08.2016
• EAN: 9781452125343
• ISBN: 978-1-4521-2534-3
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 210 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Language: history & general works, Language: history and general works