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Twenty-Odd Ducks: Why, Every Punctuation Mark Counts!
32 pp.
| Putnam |
September, 2008 |
TradeISBN 978-0-399-25058-3$16.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Bonnie Timmons.
This amusing companion to Truss's popular Eats, Shoots & Leaves and The Girl's Like Spaghetti demonstrates what can happen when one sentence is punctuated in two different ways. (For example: "How many shoes do you need!/?") Timmons's colorful, loose-handed illustrations highlight the comical results. The actual grammatical rules in play are explained at the back of the book.