About The Book
Zanzibar and his Zany Crew of Sentence Constructors
If you are searching for a way in which to interest children or anyone wishing to learn English, a good way is to suggest this book. For adults, both fluent in English and those wishing to become so, the book serves as a handy reference. Readers and Users receive three benefits:
- The first is the opportunity to learn English grammar in an entertaining, easy to remember way.
- The second is that while reading the book, since it is the context for the story, readers become aware of the true story of The Ancient Library of Alexandria, Egypt and its destruction and rebuilding.
- The third is the opportunity to participate in creating new stories.
- For younger children the animal characters in the book serves as both a challenging and an engaging context for creating their own stories to explain using the rules of English grammar to express themselves.
- For older learners or users of English the book serves as a simple, delightful way to remember grammar while serving as a handy reference when writing. Professional writers and attorneys are particularly appreciative of the quiet resource the book in their desk drawer may provide.
From the Intergalactic Space Station, Ali peered through the orbit meter set on Alexandria, Egypt around 2,000 years ago and began to sweat. Seeing the orange flames soaring higher and higher, he imagined the sound of crackling as the precious old parchments vanished. At hand was the very destruction of recorded knowledge! King Alexander the Great did not have this Library built to lose it now!, he explained to the city fathers. He went on to suggest, “What we know, once in the now burned books, must be written again creating books both new and old. We must find Zanzibar and his Zany Crew. My glimpse through the orbit meter/time machine reveals a future wherein the diffusion of the English language is as widespread as a fresh carpet of winter snow. “Hurray!”, they shouted, “if many know English and we write so, the sentences, both new and old, may comprehensively grow!” This is a story recounted in a fanciful way using the true incident of the burning of the famous Library of Alexandria, Egypt, including its contents, more than two thousand years ago as a context. Joyfully in 2008, on the Egyptian coast of the Mediterranean Sea, the inauguration of the new Library of Alexandria was celebrated. The requirement of the Library to make available many texts, both new and old, is used in this book as a context for sharing the mechanics of English sentence construction. Join us as Zanzibar, appointed by the city leaders, finds the crew needed to construct and reconstruct the books, both new and old, of the ancient Library of Alexandria.