4.31 avg rating — 844,369 ratings

"At the publisher's request, this was written with a total vocabulary of 50 words."

4.19 avg rating — 584,973 ratings

"Before writing Green Eggs, Dr Seuss wrote this with a vocabulary of 236 words."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings

"This comic book in French uses 12 of the 20 most frequently occurring words in French newspapers, plus exact French-English cognates, such as "dragon". One frequent word is introduced per page. Over 300 words of story plus a crossword and song with the same constraints."

4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings

"This comic uses the most frequent 20 words found in French newspapers plus French-English cognates, continuing form Episode 1, adding a new frequent word, and or grammatical/spelling rule per page. "

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings

"Episode 3 goes beyond the 20 frequent words of Episodes 1-2, adding more conjugations of the present tense, minor cognate spelling variations and 9 new frequent words."

4.14 avg rating — 12,297 ratings

"After his popular Up Goer Five comic, which used the most frequent 1000 words of English to explain rocket science, the author wrote an entire book that explains science and technology using the same vocabulary. Others have also written, sometimes quite beautiful text with the same vocabulary, with the aid of a vocabulary checker."

3.91 avg rating — 32,620 ratings

"Presumably this also constrains vocabulary, but I can't find the details anywhere."

3.47 avg rating — 91 ratings

"The only vowel used in this French story is the letter E. It was inspired by Gadsby."

3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings

"This French story doesn't use the letter E at all."

3.75 avg rating — 3,827 ratings

"Avoids the letter E."

2.78 avg rating — 335 ratings

"Avoids the letter E. The first of its kind."