Doctor Esperanto and the Language of Hope (Hardcover)

from laVermeer

Such a fine and gentle book! This picture book introduces some foundational concepts about language and offers a problem-solving orientation to cultural conflict - a very positive model in these turbulent times. I enjoyed learning about Leyzer Zamenhof and now am interested in learning Esperanto;...

from BookNeurd

Doctor Esperanto and the Language of Hope by Mara Rockliff, illustrated by Zosia Dzierzawska is a children's book about how Leyzer Zamenhof created the 'language of hope' - Esperanto. During a time of great turmoil in his town of Bialystok, Poland, he wondered if a common language would bring pea...

from niquetteb

A children's picture book about Leyzer Zamenhof, the founder of a unique language called Esperanto. Zamenhof created the language with the goal of bringing people of all languages together by sharing one language in hopes of creating peace through better cross-cultural understanding. The illustra...

from laVermeer

Such a fine and gentle book! This picture book introduces some foundational concepts about language and offers a problem-solving orientation to cultural conflict — a very positive model in these turbulent times. I enjoyed learning about Leyzer Zamenhof and now am interested in learning Esperanto;...

from jimvail

This was published by Candlewick so of course its a quality book (they sent an advanced reader to me for a review, they didn't know i would have probably bought it anyway). Esperanto was designed/created to reverse Babel. A nineteenth century man grew up in a multi-ethnic town and heard/saw the n...