(2) K-3 Illustrated by Lynn Rowe Reed. The prefixes (depicted in collage illustrations in clay, paint, and colorful pipe cleaners) are excited because their teacher had "promised to REview PREfixes today." When he arrives at school dressed as President Lincoln, though, the prefixes worry that they have been forgotten. The silly speech-bubble dialogue and overall likability of the prefix characters carry the day; the endpapers include a prefix refresher course.

Reviewer: Robin L. Smith | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2017

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Lynn Rowe Reed. Pulver (Punctuation Takes a Vacation, et al.) is back with another lively, colorful story. This time the capital letters are struggling. Texting has made Mr. Wright's students lazy; the capital letters have become weakened through neglect. Droll commentary from the letters keeps the book from becoming simply a grammar tract. Childlike acrylic illustrations, with eyeballs on each letter, keep the tone light.

Reviewer: Robin L. Smith | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2012

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Lynn Rowe Reed. Mr. Wright's students "tackle" word endings. The endings (personified), worried that being tackled will hurt, slip off the blackboard and into the weight room to beef up. Sunny acrylics keep the story light and humorous as the suffixes, often drawn with eyes or highlighted in different colors, dance around the pages. Grammar is a lot less boring with this book at hand.

Reviewer: Robin L. Smith | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2011

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Lynn Rowe Reed. Following Punctuation Takes a Vacation and Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day, silent letters make themselves heard. Frustrated with these reticent letters, Mr. Wright's students e-mail the newspaper to propose banning them. Playful design points up silent letters within the text, and the faux-naive mixed-media illustrations give both human and letter characters lots of personality.

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2008

(4) PS Illustrated by Lynn Rowe Reed. "Sun comes up.... / Sweep! Sweep! Sweep! / Dusty little / street cleaner / swishes down / the street." A lyrical, onomatopoeic, vaguely rhyming text describes a typical day in the city. The book features great verbal and visual thumbnails ("Man walks his dog--dog walks his man"), but both the verse and the acrylic art occasionally test the line between exuberance and chaos.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Lynn Rowe Reed. When Mr. Wright offers his class a break during a lesson on commas, the punctuation marks get a little huffy. Off they go to Take-a-Break Lake where, in Reedy's goofy acrylic illustrations, the now less-than-punctilious marks are shown sunbathing, water-skiing, and frolicking in bikinis. Information about punctuation is woven into the lighthearted story, and a list of simple punctuation rules is also included.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2003