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Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!

By Lynne Truss
Illustrated by Bonnie Timmons

By Lynne Truss
Illustrated by Bonnie Timmons

Best Seller
Hardcover $18.99

Jul 25, 2006 | ISBN 9780399244919 | 6-9 years

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
Hardcover $18.99
Jul 25, 2006 | ISBN 9780399244919

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About Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Punctuation play is at its finest in this New York Times #1 bestseller!

Illuminating the comical confusion the lowly comma can cause, this new edition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves uses lively, subversive illustrations to show how misplacing or leaving out a comma can change the meaning of a sentence completely. 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. And a sign saying “Eat here and get gas” would hint at a very different odor than “Eat here, and get gas.”

This picture book is sure to elicit gales of laughter—and better punctuation—from all who read it.

#1 New York Times Bestseller
Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book
KidsReads.com Best Book of the Year

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About Lynne Truss

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

About Bonnie Timmons

BONNIE TIMMONS is best known for inspiring and creating images for the television show Caroline in the City and illustrating numerous national ad campaigns.

Product Details

Category: Children’s Nonfiction | Children’s Picture Books

Hardcover | $18.99
Published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers
Jul 25, 2006 | 32 Pages | 10-1/2 x 7 | 6-9 years | ISBN 9780399244919

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Praise

#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

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