Overview
Punctuation marks come alive in this clever picture book featuring fourteen playful poems. Periods stop sentences in a baker's shop, commas help a train slow down, quotation marks tell people what to do, and colons stubbornly introduce lists. This appealing primer is a surefire way to make punctuation both accessible and fun for kids.
Full Product Details
Author: Elsa Knight Bruno ,
Jenny Whitehead
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Imprint: Henry Holt & Company
Dimensions:
Width: 22.50cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 28.80cm
Weight: 0.381kg
ISBN: 9780805079739
ISBN 10: 0805079734
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 21 July 2009
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
Praise for Punctuation Celebration:
Praise for Punctuation Celebration: Here's a poetic way to learn punctuation -- 14 rhyming poems, with illustrated examples of hyphens, colons and other acrobatic punctuation at work. It's playfully instructive. -- USA Today Teachers presenting punctuation will be glad to have such a lighthearted interpretation of the topic to share with their classes. -- Booklist For those looking for a quick punctuation review in a fresh style, this will do nicely. -- Kirkus Reviews Bruno's writing is clear and lively throughout... Bright collages of children of various ethnicities engaged in diverse activities complement the text... Bruno's comprehensive approach to the topic offers good value to smaller collections. -- School Library Journal
Praise for Punctuation Celebration: <p> Here's a poetic way to learn punctuation -- 14 rhyming poems, with illustrated examples of hyphens, colons and other acrobatic punctuation at work. It's playfully instructive. -- USA Today <p> Teachers presenting punctuation will be glad to have such a lighthearted interpretation of the topic to share with their classes. -- Booklist <p> For those looking for a quick punctuation review in a fresh style, this will do nicely. -- Kirkus Reviews <p> Bruno's writing is clear and lively throughout... Bright collages of children of various ethnicities engaged in diverse activities complement the text... Bruno's comprehensive approach to the topic offers good value to smaller collections. -- School Library Journal
Author Information
ELSA KNIGHT BRUNO taught kindergarten for twenty-nine years. She has published fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in many children's magazines. Punctuation Celebration is her first picture book. She lives in Sylvania, Ohio. JENNY WHITEHEAD is the author-illustrator of Holiday Stew: A Kid's Portion of Holiday and Seasonal Poems and Lunch Box Mail and Other Poems. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
