Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of
South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop author of the immortal phrase containing
all the letters of the alphabet "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Now Ella
finds herself acting to save her friends family and fellow citizens from the encroaching
totalitarianism of the island's Council which has banned the use of certain letters of the
alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop
from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is both a hilarious and moving
story of one girl's fight for freedom of expression as well as a linguistic tour de force sure
to delight word lovers everywhere.
