Eats More Shoots & Leaves: Why All Punctuation Marks Matter! (Paperback)

Laugh your way to punctuation perfection with this pocket-sized paperback compendium of the hilariously illustrated #1 New York Times bestselling series. Clever side-by-side illustrations show how punctuation placement makes a huge difference in the meaning of a sentence. Imagine this without the middle period and the comma: The king walked and talked. A half hour after his head was cut off. Oh no--a beheaded king that can still walk and talk! You might want to eat a huge hot dog but a huge hot dog would run away pretty quickly if you tried to take a bite out of him. Scenes from all three of Lynne Truss and Bonnie Timmons s best-selling punctuation picture books (Eats Shoots & Leaves The Girl s Like Spaghetti and Twenty-Odd Ducks) highlight the important jobs of commas apostrophes hyphens quotation marks and more in this humorous punctuation primer. Wordplay or grammarplay at its finest. --School Library Journal.