Alphamaniacs: Builders of 26 Wonders of the Word illustrator-Shiho Pate He knows there’s something special

He knows there’s something special about his stuffed animals -- they seem to move in the night and sometimes look beat-up

and visiting the zoo—but even the most regular things have a secret side

In her eighty-year career

Lilac’s birthright makes her the Queen of Renovia

Young Tonino Montana is the only member of his family who wasn't born with an instinct for creating spells

Alphamaniacs: Builders of 26 Wonders of the Word illustrator-Shiho Pate He knows there’s something specialSIGNED copies available! Are you a word person? A curiosity seeker? An explorer? Take a look at these twenty six extraordinary individuals for whom love of language is an extreme sport. Step right up and read the genuine stories of writers so intoxicated by the shapes and sound of language that they collected, dissected, and constructed verbal wonders of the most extraordinary kind. Jean Dominique Bauby wrote his memoirs by blinking his left eyelid,