Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! | 
| Author: Lynne Truss
Creator: Bonnie Timmons
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
List Price: $15.99
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Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 8567
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 32
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 7.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 0399244913
Dewey Decimal Number: 428.2
UPC: 048228015994
EAN: 9780399244919
ASIN: 0399244913
Publication Date: July 25, 2006
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Product Description
Young and young-at-heart sticklers, unite! Lynne Truss and illustrator Bonnie Timmons provide hilarious proof that punctuation really does matter. Illuminating the comical confusion the lowly comma can cause, this new edition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves uses lively, subversive illustrations to show how misplacing or leaving out a comma can change the meaning of a sentence completely. This picture book is sure to elicit gales of laughterand better punctuationfrom all who read it.
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 Pleasure November 30, 2009
Naya Jhen (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
This book was an absolute pleasure to read. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in a bit of grammatical vigilantism. Lynne Truss has a sense of humor that just had me laughing out of my chair after every paragraph.
Great for comma challenged children and adults! August 3, 2009
Deborah Verlen (Chicago, IL USA)
I actually picked this book up for myself since I am comma challenged! It was a great illustration of how to use commas in every day writing and what happens when you either don't use them or use them incorrectly. At the back of the book you will find the appropriate rules that accompany the illustrated uses!
Great Book! July 30, 2009
Natalie
I am currently an adviser for a writing program, and I purchased this book because the students wanted to learn about grammar and punctuation. This book does a great job of explaining the importance of commas through plenty of delightful examples. The illustrations are memorable and their explanations are clear. I would recommend this book for young children who are being introduced to commas and other types of punctuation.
Funny? About Grammar? Yes! January 9, 2009
Fuzzbunbun (Buffalo, NY USA)
Eats, Shoots and Leaves is one of the funniest books I've ever read. I've recommended it to everyone I know who's slightly interested in grammar and punctuation. Buy this, read it, laugh.
 Eat Here and Get Gas -Convenience Store (Incorrect) November 29, 2008
Jake Smithers (New York)
The foolish things we write or don't write, or in this case, don't add to our sentences, can change our word of mind entirely. The `comma', ladies and gentlemen, is what is talked about in this book. If you caught a glimpse if my title, you'll know what I mean. With my title in mind, I think you would agree with me, that having gas is natural and buying gas (as in the fuel) is something we do, but, being promised you'll have gas after eating in this certain place is nuts!-or, ah...beans? But that is exactly how the sentence comes out... without your comma(s) in the proper spot.
The vibrant and vivid pictures, coupled along with the short, funny, and should-be-obvious sentences, make this a catchy and creative book. The sentence/punctuation portion in the back of the book was helpful in explaining the differences in the various sentences and operations of them. I think personally, though, there should have been a bit more content in it, like, the sentences could have been longer perhaps a few more short stories could have been added.
This is a great book for kids, and, dare I say it, adults too; though I probably would not recommend buying it, but instead taking it out of your local library.
Eat here, and get gas -correct
-Jake Smithers
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