The Girl's Like Spaghetti

Why, You Can't Manage without Apostrophes!

Illustrated by Bonnie Timmons
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Best Seller
$17.99 US
Penguin Young Readers | G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
40 per carton
On sale Jul 10, 2007 | 978-0-399-24706-4
Age 6-9 years
Sales rights: US/CAN (No Open Mkt)
A comanion to the New York Times #1 best-seller Eats, Shoots & Leaves, this is punctuation play at its finest!

Just as the use of commas was hilariously demystified in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!, now Lynne Truss and Bonnie Timmons put their talents together to do the same for apostrophes. Everyone needs to know where to put an apostrophe to make a word plural or possessive (Are those sticky things your brother's or your brothers?) and leaving one out of a contraction can give someone the completely wrong impression (Were here to help you).

Full of silly scenes that show how apostrophes make a difference, too, this is another picture book that will elicit bales of laughter and better punctuation from all who read it.

A New York Times Bestseller
Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Winner

New York Times Bestseller
Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Winner

“Wordplay or ‘grammarplay’ at its finest.”—School Library Journal

“Some sentence pairs are whimsical while others are laugh-out-loud funny.” —Kirkus Reviews

“If you think punctuation can’t be funny, you haven’t met grammar maven Lynne Truss.”—Sacramento Bee

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A comanion to the New York Times #1 best-seller Eats, Shoots & Leaves, this is punctuation play at its finest!

Just as the use of commas was hilariously demystified in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!, now Lynne Truss and Bonnie Timmons put their talents together to do the same for apostrophes. Everyone needs to know where to put an apostrophe to make a word plural or possessive (Are those sticky things your brother's or your brothers?) and leaving one out of a contraction can give someone the completely wrong impression (Were here to help you).

Full of silly scenes that show how apostrophes make a difference, too, this is another picture book that will elicit bales of laughter and better punctuation from all who read it.

A New York Times Bestseller
Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Winner

Praise

New York Times Bestseller
Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Winner

“Wordplay or ‘grammarplay’ at its finest.”—School Library Journal

“Some sentence pairs are whimsical while others are laugh-out-loud funny.” —Kirkus Reviews

“If you think punctuation can’t be funny, you haven’t met grammar maven Lynne Truss.”—Sacramento Bee