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Eats More, Shoots & Leaves|Lynne Truss
Eats More, Shoots & Leaves : Why, All Punctuation Marks Matter!
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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

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781984815743
  • ISBN-10: 1984815741
  • Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
  • Publish Date: October 2019
  • Dimensions: 7.4 x 4.9 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25 pounds
  • Page Count: 64
  • Reading Level: Ages 6-9

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