Punctuation: Commas, Full Stops, and Question Marks

Getting to Grips With Grammar

by Anita Ganeri

This book examines punctuation, explaining what it is and how it is used. The text is accompanied by bright, colourful sentence diagrams designed to clarify basic grammatical concepts, while engaging photographs and eye-catching illustrations make the book visually appealing to young readers. A quiz at the back of the book helps to cement what the reader has learned.

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Anita Ganeri is a highly experienced author of children’s information books, specialising in religion, India/Asia, multiculturalism, geography, biography and natural history. She became a freelance writer after working at Walker Books (as foreign rights manager) and Usborne Publishing (as an editor). Since then, she has written over 300 titles, including the best-selling Horrible Geography series for Scholastic. The series won the Geographical Association Silver Award in 1999 and was cited as being ‘an innovation that all geographers will applaud’. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society where she conducts most of her research for the books.

Reviews

[Rose Rosetree · Rating 5 out of 5]

How I wish that every English speaker could read this book. Because I know some really bright college grads who don't know all the information here. It's such a pity. Anita Ganieri makes all the info here really accessible.

My favorite part is a section called...

SPOT THE PUNCTUATION MARKS

On facing pages, there are two excellent exercises.

On Page 10, readers have the chance to read two sentences. Each time, readers can "spot all the punctuation marks."

On Page 11, "Can you tell the difference between these two sentences?"

Hint: They have nothing to do with Eats, Shoots and Leaves. ;-)

FIVE STARS for an excellent book, clearly written, and so accessible.