I love English, especially its flexibility. Maybe because it has roots in so many different languages (Latin, German, French, and early Brit and Celt just to mention a few), it always seems to be able to absorb any word without it looking silly or jarring to the eye or ear. If you have ever seen a French sentence using a word like Coca-Cola, you'll know what I mean.However, I don't have the same love of punctuation. I have a tendency to throw in commas willy-nilly, hoping they're in the right pl...

This is a hilarious book that gives examples of how the placement of commas can totally change the meaning of a sentence. The illustrations are really funny as well, which help students visualize the drastic effects of misplacing a comma or not using it correctly. Another great feature of this book is a section in the back that explains the grammatical difference between each of the examples, providing excellent instructional opportunities.

Such a good book to show the power of commas, I can’t believe I’ve only just found this book. I’m very excited to use this with my year 5s and am especially grateful that at the back they also explain each use of commas which helps me if i’m struggling to understand one.

This book is a great way to talk about punctuation, commas specifically. Most middle school students have no idea when or where to use commas and that causes a problem when it comes to their writing. Commas change the whole meaning of a phrase. The famous example is "Let's eat Grandma" and "Let's eat, Grandma". One phrase is promoting cannibalism and one is telling the Grandma to eat. Students need practice with placing commas where they need to do. As a teacher, you can present one or two of th...

Reviewed this version with my Comp II students in class today. A few light bulbs clicked on as we discussed the differences between the phrases on each spread. The visualizing really helped them.

What if one day when you wake up, God disintegrate all the commas in the world even erase it inside the mind of all the people living inside this small spherical world called Earth, and God only give you one copy of Lynne Truss’ book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves to survive. Can you help the commas survive or you will be one of those people who are planning to dominate the world by commas? Be one of us, be the Comma Fighters.It is very hard to accept that commas are one of the most used and most easily...

A cute read that illustrates (literally) how moving a comma just one word away from its appropriate place will drastically change the meaning of the entire sentence. Simple, colorful cartoons make these examples shine. Some are quite comical.

Synopsis : You might want to eat a huge hotdog, but a huge, hot dog would run away pretty quickly if you tried to take a bite out of him. Just look inside to see how forgetting to include a comma or placing one in the wrong spot can completely change the meaning of a sentence--with hilarious consequences. Review : I wish I had had this book when I was in 4th grade (I wish I had had this book when I was in 12th grade). But, I'll tell you what, I'm glad I found it now. It's really a wonderfu

Such a fun book to teach comma usage!

There are some uses of the comma that this little book explained better than anywhere else on the Internet!:-)

Funny.

Yes, children will understand this. They don't need the grammar explanation in the back, and they don't need to read it as a companion to the adult version. The pictures show the difference quite clearly. And memorably. I would buy this for classrooms of children aged 8-12 for sure, and encourage everyone else to read it from their libraries.I also think it would be fun for a class of students to make up their own pairs of sentences and to illustrate the two versions themselves. A child who has

A cartoon look at comma usage and how its misuse can make a sentence completely change and go awry. It's a funny companion, appropriate for children, to the author's similarly titled book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. We've enjoyed both books. Although our girls can't truly appreciate the nuances yet, they still enjoyed the cartoon pictures.

A clever, well-designed book to introduce the purpose of commas in sentence. It gives some fun sentence examples of comma placement and also a grammatical explanation of the parts of the sentence (objects, nouns, dependent clauses, etc.) This is probably for older children.

Another collection of alternating uses of punctuation that demonstrate how the same sentence is modified for hilarious results, in this case depending on where you put a comma. This has all the strengths of "Girl's Like Spaghetti," except perhaps that the apostrophe is more egregiously misused. Certainly I see fewer awful errors with commas than I see with apostrophes.But the book is great, and also has the two-page summary of the contents of the book, which would work nicely as a poster for a c...

I loved this book. A self-confessed comma momma, I get carried away using this form of punctuation sometimes. Oops, there I go again!It was part of the juvenile fiction at our local library but mentally-challenged adults (like me!) can benefit from this book, too. It is easy to read and understand. Ms. Truss takes the same phrase or sentence and uses a comma with one and shows it without one on the second page. A picture is included to show you what a difference it makes. Lastly, there are two p...

Let me get this out of the way as soon as possible, this book has absolutely zero story, but that's a GOOD thing. When I read this book in class, I knew I wouldn't be expecting some grand, epic journey, instead I looked at what the book was, a teaching and reference guide, and judged it by that. And you know what? It's pretty good. The book uses a lot of creative art to illustrate for kids how misplaced commas can affect the meaning of an entire sentence. The art may not be colored, but it is fu...

"Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!" is a children's book delving into the world of commas in a pun filled and insightful way. The pages facing each other are made up of the same words, but with commas placed in different spaces. The illustrations match the sentence's true meaning. For example, one sentence would read: "Slow, children walking", while the other read, "Slow children walking." One is clearly depicting a cross walk with students walking across while the