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 both accessible and fun for kids.
Author Information
Elsa Knight Bruno taught kindergarten for twenty-nine years. She has published fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in many children's magazines. This is her first picture book. She lives in Sylvania, Ohio.
Jenny Whitehead is the author-illustrator of Holiday Stew: A Kid's Portion of Holiday and Seasonal Poems and Lunch Box Mail and Other Poems. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.