Ella Minnow Pea is about a girl, Ella, who lives on the Island of the maker of the famous pan-gram, The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. A pan-gram is a word with all the letters of the alphabet in it. One day, one of the letters falls off of a statue made in honor of the man, and instead of thinking that the statue needs a touch up, the government thinks that it is a message from the man, and bans the letter from the island. As more and more letters fall off, more letters get banned from being written, read, or spoken. Ella and her family try to find another pan-gram before everything gets banned, and they do. They make 'Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.' and save the island.
While this book is quite funny, especially near the end, the plot isn't very exciting. Also, the book is written as a series of letters to and from Ella and her cousin, and so the point of view gets confusing after a while. It would be a good book for people that like learning about the English language, but it isn't very exciting for people that like adventure books, i.e me.
