Language Arts - English Language, Grammar

The Perfect Pop-Up Punctuation Book

Name: The Perfect Pop-Up Punctuation Book
Author: Kate Petty
ISBN: 9780525477723

by Kate Petty, Jennie Maizels

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Overview

In this interactive pop-up book, teaching and learning punctuation are transformed into a fun, hands-on activity. Sliding tabs, lift-the-flap features, and fresh, bold illustrations are sure to engage kids and help them understand the basic rules of punctuation. Wacky unpunctuated sentences will have kids laughing as they learn to recognize the correct use of every punctuation mark. Playful quizzes—and helpful hints from different animals on each page—make this book a perfect learning tool in the classroom and at home.

Synopsis

In this interactive pop-up book, teaching and learning punctuation are transformed into a fun, hands-on activity. Sliding tabs, lift-the-flap features, and fresh, bold illustrations are sure to engage kids and help them understand the basic rules of punctuation. Wacky unpunctuated sentences will have kids laughing as they learn to recognize the correct use of every punctuation mark. Playful quizzes--and helpful hints from different animals on each page--make this book a perfect learning tool in the classroom and at home.

About the Author: Kate Petty and Jennie Maizels both live in England.

Publishers Weekly

Budding writers will surely appreciate The Perfect Pop-Up Punctuation Book by Kate Petty, illus. by Jennie Maizels. With tabs that pull and flaps that lift up to reveal the rules of punctuation on every page, this book will not only help young writers to clarify their sentence structure but will also breathe life into grammar lesson. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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Children's Literature - Eleanor Heldrich

The creators of this book have produced several other quasieducational movable books. In general these books are overflowing with interesting characters, colorful art, multiple talk bubbles, and information overkill. It is a definite style, full of clutter with no open space, and you either like it or you do not. From the pop-up point of view, the book has plenty of action. There are three genuine pop-ups, dozens of pull-tabs, and countless flaps to lift. However, as an educational tool the pages are too busy for beginner grammarians. For instance, on the page that introduces commas as a tool for making a complicated sentence clear, a large flap must be raised and held up while the reader simultaneously pulls four tabs, dragging commas into place, in a long sentence under the tab. In some examples the need for punctuation is stretched in order to support an interesting action. Does the sentence, "Big cranes of all sorts are fun to watch," really need parentheses around "of all sorts?" Probably not, but a pop-up entertains by having a pair of big crane grabbers (looking somewhat like parentheses) drop the words of all sorts into the middle of the sentence. This is more puzzle and game book than punctuation manual.

School Library Journal

Gr 3-5-Filled with informative tabs, lift-the-flaps, and pop-ups, this highly interactive book acts as a giant grammar lesson. Readers will learn the proper use for commas, semicolons, colons, exclamation points, dashes, and more. The text is funny as well; for example, the section called "comma jokes" shows how commas change the meaning of sentences: "Let's eat the kids begged Mom" becomes "`Let's eat,' the kids begged Mom." Children will enjoy this book, though its engineering design makes it delicate for heavy circulation. Consider a copy for reference or classroom use.-Lisa Gangemi Kropp, Middle Country Public Library, Centereach, NY Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.