Friends with Words Text by Jerry Saltz

Friends with Words Text by Jerry SaltzThe word nerd gift book of the year! With warmth and humor, a popular radio and podcast host shares her love of language, weaving together linguistic history, regional phrases, the hidden poetry in etymologies, new words, and stories from her life and time on the air. Martha Barnette has spent two decades as the co host of A Way with Words, lauded by Mary Norris in The New Yorker as a virtual treasure house and Car Talk for Lexiphiles. Over that time,

as it happens

the award-winning author of the acclaimed memoir Goat Song

author Blair Thornburgh and illustrator Kate Berube recognize the dreadful disappointment that a casting list can cause—as well as the power of friendship

Based on archival letters

the constant quest for beautiful materials

Israeli storyteller Noa Baum grew up in Jerusalem in the shadow of the ancestral traumas of the holocaust and ongoing wars

” —Apartment Therapy

French journalist and documentarian Loïc Prigent has been tweeting the funny interactions

she delivered an astonishing 4

lyrical picture book with shades of Where the Wild Things Are that illustrates the power of imagination to transport us to new worlds from author Susanna Mattiangeli and illustrator Felicita Sala

His curiosity

illustrated with all-new art from Roman Muradov