Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
Illuminating the comical confusion the lowly comma can cause, this new edition uses lively, subversive illustrations to show how misplacing or leaving out a comma can change the meaning of a sentence completely. This picture book adaptation of the "New York Times" bestseller is sure to elicit gales of laughter--and better punctuation--from all who read it.
Review Quotes: #1 New York Times Bestseller
Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book
KidsReads.com Best Book of the Year
A Junior Library Guild Selection
"While dissolving into giggles over the change in meaning between 'Eat here, and get gas, ' or 'Eat here and get gas, ' children will find themselves gaining an instinctive understanding of the 'traffic signals of language.' " --
Booklist "The point is to make children laugh while swallowing their grammatical medicine--and do they ever." --
The Wall Street Journal "Truss, author of the No. 1 best-selling adult book of the same title, shares her witty and wise examples with a direly-in-need younger generation. . . . Youngsters of all ages will giggle their way through the wacky images." --
The Chicago Sun-Times
