"An emphatic but misplaced exclamation point learns that being different can be very exciting! Period."--Amazon.com.

When all the punctuation marks in Mr. Wright's class decide to take a vacation, the students discover just how difficult life can be without them.

Rhymes, animal characters, and a chaotic train-station setting provide an entertaining introduction to seven oft-used punctuation marks: periods, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, question marks, hyphens, and exclamation points.

Can learning about punctuation really be fun? You bet--in Elsa Knight Bruno's Punctuation Celebration, featuring illlustrations by Jenny Whitehead 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...

The original edition of the most trusted writer's guide to American English, this is the book that generations of writers have relied upon for timeless advice on grammar, diction, syntax, sentence construction, and other writing essentials. In brief and concise terms, author William Strunk, Jr., identifies the principal requirements of proper American English style and concentrates on the most often violated rules of composition. Originally published...

"Introduces five of the most common types of punctuation -- apostrophe, comma, exclamation point, period, question mark -- through the telling of an original story"--

Explains and demonstrates how quotation marks are used in sentences.

Punctuation marks like commas, periods and quotation marks are special road signs that help control word traffic in our sentences, stories and letters.

Dark Marker tries to rule the entire universe. Clues left by Marker lead to space, the Moon, Mars, and the Milky Way. Along the way, the children must learn the rules of apostrophes and double negatives to solve the clues.