Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds F. Max Müller this is a picture book

this is a picture book about a young girl who is feeling mixed emotions about her first day of school

eighty-three-year-old Jasper lives alone in a cabin bordering a national forest

and magic behind names

My special little squeakheart

Wise Russians fear him

Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds F. Max Müller this is a picture bookDid you know that an "astronaut" is literally a "star sailor," that a thesaurus is, in fact, a "treasure trove" of words, and that someone who is "sinister" is actually just "left handed"? Have you ever wondered why English isn't considered a Romance language if 60% of our words are Latin derived? Did Shakespeare really invent 1,700 words, and if not, why the heck do we say that he did? Why is the English language stuffed with so many synonyms? Let's