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Jul 10, 2007 | ISBN 9780399247064 | 6-9 years Buy
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Jul 10, 2007 | ISBN 9780399247064 | 6-9 years
A comanion to the New York Times #1 best-seller Eats, Shoots & Leaves, this is punctuation play at its finest!Just as the use of commas was hilariously demystified in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!, now Lynne Truss and Bonnie Timmons put their talents together to do the same for apostrophes. Everyone needs to know where to put an apostrophe to make a word plural or possessive (Are those sticky things your brother’s or your brothers?) and leaving one out of a contraction can give someone the completely wrong impression (Were here to help you).
Full of silly scenes that show how apostrophes make a difference, too, this is another picture book that will elicit bales of laughter and better punctuation from all who read it.A New York Times Bestseller Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Winner
Lynne Truss is a writer and journalist who started out as a literary editor with a blue pencil and then got sidetracked. The author of three novels and numerous radio comedy dramas, she spent six years as the television critic… More about Lynne Truss
New York Times Bestseller Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Winner “Wordplay or ‘grammarplay’ at its finest.”—School Library Journal “Some sentence pairs are whimsical while others are laugh-out-loud funny.” —Kirkus Reviews “If you think punctuation can’t be funny, you haven’t met grammar maven Lynne Truss.”—Sacramento Bee
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