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A is for Airstrip.


A Is For Airstrip

Marilyn Laszlo

Chalfont House

PO Box 84, Dumfries, VA 22026

0972011137 $16.95 www.ChalfontHouse.com

Highly recommended for family, Sunday School Sunday school, institution for instruction in religion and morals, usually conducted in churches as part of the church organization but sometimes maintained by other religious or philanthropic bodies.

In England during the 18th cent.
, and Bible School library picture book collections, A Is For Airstrip: A Missionary's Jungle Adventure was written for children by former Wycliffe Bible translator Marilyn Laszlo with the assistance of Elizabeth Maddrey and Lindap Perry. Enhanced with almost 70 photographs from Marilyn's adventures in the jungle of Papua, New Guinea--where she lived in a remote Hauna Village for 25 years, learning the local language, crating an alphabet alphabet [Gr. alpha-beta, like Eng. ABC], system of writing, theoretically having a one-for-one relation between character (or letter) and phoneme (see phonetics). Few alphabets have achieved the ideal exactness. , and translating the Bible for this tribe on the Sepik Iwam River. More than just another ABC ABC
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 for preschoolers, A Is For Airstrip features bi-lingual pairings of native words and their English equivalents, wonderful anecdotes, and activities that will fully capture the attention of young readers.
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