chapter book
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of chapter book
First recorded in 1985–90
Example Sentences
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I didn't want to write a chapter book because we're in the age of low attention spans.
From Salon • May 18, 2024
Launching this week from Pacific Northwest publisher Hazy Dell Press, the chapter book for ages 8–12 engages hard-to-please tween readers with imaginative adventure, fun illustrations, silly fart references and lots of so-bad-they’re-good puns.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2019
He’s the author of 11 poetry collections, a chapter book and a picture book. hen Kenn Nesbitt was kid, car rides didn’t include a Nintendo 3DS and an iPad.
From Washington Post • Jun. 13, 2013
That was how Roald Dahl’s longtime editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Stephen Roxburgh, described an early draft of the cantankerous author’s last long chapter book for children.
From Slate • Apr. 5, 2013
Mom had written and illustrated the Harriet Honeywell books, a chapter book series, for the past four years.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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