Punctuation Celebration - by Elsa Knight Bruno (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Punctuation marks come alive in this clever picture book featuring 14 playful poems. Periods stop sentences in a baker's shop, commas help a train slow down, quotation marks tell people what to do, and colons stubbornly introduce lists. This appealing primer is a surefire way to make punctuation both accessible and fun for kids.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Can learning about punctuation really be fun? You bet--in Elsa Knight Bruno's<i> Punctuation Celebration</i>, featuring illlustrations by Jenny Whitehead</b> <p/>Punctuation marks come alive in this clever picture book featuring fourteen playful poems. Periods stop sentences in a baker's shop, commas help a train slow down, quotation marks tell people what to do, and colons stubbornly introduce lists. This appealing primer is a surefire way to make punctuation both accessible and fun for kids.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Here's a poetic way to learn punctuation--14 rhyming poems, with illustrated examples of hyphens, colons and other acrobatic punctuation at work. It's playfully instructive." --<i>USA Today</i> <p/>"Teachers presenting punctuation will be glad to have such a lighthearted interpretation of the topic to share with their classes." --<i>Booklist</i> <p/>"For those looking for a quick punctuation review in a fresh style, this will do nicely." --<i>Kirkus Reviews</i> <p/>"Bruno's writing is clear and lively throughout. . . . Bright collages of children of various ethnicities engaged in diverse activities complement the text. . . . Bruno's comprehensive approach to the topic offers good value to smaller collections." --<i>School Library Journal</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Elsa Knight Bruno taught kindergarten for twenty-nine years. She has published fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in many children's magazines. <i>Punctuation Celebration</i> is her first picture book. She lives in Sylvania, Ohio. <br>Jenny Whitehead is the author-illustrator of <i>Holiday Stew: A Kid's Portion of Holiday and Seasonal Poems </i>and <i>Lunch Box Mail and Other Poems</i>. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.</p>
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