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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! (精装)
by Lynne Truss , Bonnie Timmons (Illustrator)
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Punctuation learning, Picture books, Ages 4-8, Children's books |
| Market price: ¥ 168.00
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¥ 158.00
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MSL rating:
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| MSL Pointer Review:
A clever book shows to kids how the placement of a comma can change the meaning of a sentence in a very interesting way. |
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J. Sloan, USA
<2006-12-22 00:00>
In the illustrated version of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss shows how the placement of a comma can change the meaning of a sentence. Hilarious illustrations, great for showing kids the importance of punctuation and fun for adults! |
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C. J. Reno , USA
<2006-12-22 00:00>
Finally, a book that makes it easy to show eight-year-olds just why commas matter! Memorizing rules is fine and good, but it takes a touch of humor to make the lesson stick and Lynne Truss provides it. Only quibble-I could have done without the example sentence "Eat here and get gas." You'll love it, and your kids will, too. |
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Margaret Silver, USA
<2006-12-22 00:00>
If you are tired of explaining and re-explaining the importance of punctuation in writing, then this is the book for you. I originally purchased the "adult" version of this book, and while it is very clever, it is not appropriate for my students. This book, however, is perfect for my learning disabled 7th graders. Lynne Truss makes it quite clear why teachers are so picky about commas-they totally change the meaning of the sentence. The pictures help make it even more obvious that to get across the exact message, the writer must watch punctuation marks. The probably crude "gas sentence" is especially appealing to 7th grade boys. As a middle school teacher, I am no longer shocked or upset by crude pictures, statements, writing. It comes with the age group. The endnotes that explain the rule for each picture add to the educational content. This is another purchase I made over the summer-see "This is the Teacher"-that will be used and enjoyed by my middle school students. Nowadays students want to be entertained at school. Children will easily be entertained while learning the rules of grammar. |
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Anne Lamott, USA
<2006-12-22 00:00>
I just bought this book for my eight-year-old granddaughter, but I think I laughed about as much as she did. The artist's drawings are clever and funny, and illustrate a simple sentence to show what happens when a comma moves or isn't used properly. The book also has short explanations at the back of the book in case you're not, as I am not, an expert at punctuation rules and grammar. I hope Truss and Timmons explain a great deal more of grammar. They made commas great fun for my granddaughter-and for me! |
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Robert Schmidt, USA
<2006-12-22 00:00>
In this easy to read, well-illustrated book by Lynne Truss (and illustrated nicely by Bonnie Timmons), 4-8 year olds are given colorful examples of "the power of the comma." Examples: "Eat here, and get gas," versus "Eat here and get gas." "The student, said the teacher, is crazy," versus "The student said the teacher is crazy." Now I'd say this is a book for, say, 4-6 year olds. No more than 8. I think this is a book to be read to kids, not necessarily to have them read to themselves. One, it is fun to read, and kids and adults can joke about even more interesting examples of clever, contorted meanings. Two, it is a book that plants a seed for kids and adults seeing signs or other writings during the day that they can tease each other about. And if it makes kids AND adults more aware of the power of commas, so be it! This is a fun, book to share. Try reading it to a crazy, kid! |
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A reader, USA
<2006-12-22 00:00>
How does a book about how to use commas and colons properly have lodged itself at No 1 on bestseller lists? Maybe Lynne Truss' books success shows that it is not just a few reactionaries who care. Truss agrees it's selling off the internet and stickler-types probably don't do their shopping on the internet. Lynne Truss wonders if there might be readers whose higher education has given them at least a guilty conscience about what they have not been taught, suddenly thinking that perhaps it does matter and I wouldn't mind knowing this stuff. Those copies stacked in Waterstone's might show that there are plenty of people who want to be, as Lynne Truss puts it, 'virtuous'. While Truss says that 'despair' gave this book its impetus, she does not sound despairing either in print or in person. The title itself is a joke, about an irate panda who walks into a cafe, orders a sandwich, eats it, draws a gun and fires two shots into the air. The waiter finds the explanation for this erratic behavior in a badly punctuated wildlife manual which the bear leaves behind: Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! tells you the rules, but is also full of jokes and anecdotes. It is a sort of celebration of punctuation. You can't help cheering it on, because it has done such a good job in its humble way. She speaks of the delights of the semi-colon with relish. She has listened to the man from the Apostrophe Protection Society (yes, it exists) but does not sound like a member of any such group. "I was so worried when I wrote the book that people would assume that anyone interested in this subject would be small-minded". -Lynne Truss. I don't really know where punctuation is going. But this is a very good moment to look at it and see what state it's in. The internet and emails have come along very conveniently for people who didn't learn punctuation and can therefore get by. Punctuation helps give rhythm and a tone of voice to writing, and Truss thinks it no accident that readers of emails often find it difficult to pick up the tone of the person who's written it, with all those dashes. The grace notes get lopped off and it becomes very bald. So people start needing exclamation marks and capital letters, desperately trying to express a tone of voice. |
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