Rating: (34 reviews)
Author: Gail Carson Levine
Publisher: Collins
Product Description
In Writing Magic, Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine shares her secrets of great writing. She shows how you, too, can get terrific ideas for stories, invent great beginnings and endings, write sparkling dialogue, develop memorable characters—and much, much more. She advises you about what to do [...]
Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Roger Price
Publisher: Price Stern Sloan
Product Description
Nobody knows silly better than we do. And with Super Silly Mad Libs Junior, younger readers are introduced to the crazy world of Mad Libs.
Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Jerome Shostak
Publisher: William H Sadlier
Rating: (11 reviews)
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Publisher: Little Simon
Book Description
Serious silliness for all ages. Artist Sandra Boynton is back and better than ever with completely redrawn
versions of her multi-million selling board books. These whimsical and hilarious books, featuring
nontraditional texts and her famous animal characters, have been printed on thick board pages,
and are sure to educate and entertain children [...]
Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Marvin Terban
Publisher: Scholastic Reference
Book Description
This easy-to-use reference book helps you edit your writing before someone else reads it.Parts of speech * Irregular nouns and verbsThe 100 Most Commonly Confused and Misused WordsWhat Makes a Good SentenceCapitalization * Contractions * Compound Words * Idioms Abbreviations * Punctuation * Spelling * Acronyms
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Cathryn Falwell
Publisher: Clarion Books
Book Description
At breakfast one morning, Anna discovers magic in her bowl of alphabet cereal. The letters in her spoon can be arranged to form several different words. She’s a word wizard! Wielding her magic spoon, Anna helps a lost little boy named Zack find his way home-turning a [...]
Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Lois Ehlert
Publisher: Red Wagon Books
Amazon.com
Ages 1-3. This appetizing alphabet book shows fruits and vegetables so juicy and alive, you’ll wish they could jump off the page and into your mouth. Even vegetable haters will find it hard to resist the vibrantly colored collage illustrations, which make each item look fascinating and [...]
Rating: (37 reviews)
Author: Lynne Truss
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Book 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 [...]
Author: Mandy Stanley
Publisher: Kingfisher
Book Description
First Words introduces toddlers to commonly-used three-letter words. It is an ideal first book for children who are learning to read and who are beginning to associate words with familiar objects.
Rating: (47 reviews)
Author: Dr. Seuss & Roy McKie
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
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One of the titles for the younger crowd in the Beginners Books series, My Book About Me has an unusual interactive twist–you make it up as you go along. On each page there’s something new to complete, from “I weigh ___ [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Josephine Nobisso
Publisher: Gingerbread House
Book Description
Innovative yet accessible writing strategies appropriate for both fiction and nonfiction are presented in this enchanting tale of a writing lion who holds court for a cast of animal friends. Aspiring writers learn the essential nature of nouns and adjectives and how to use them to express [...]
Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Scholastic Inc.
Publisher: Scholastic Reference
Book Description
Containing 12,000 synonyms, 10,000 antonyms, and 2,000 homonyms, this versatile book is the perfect reference tool for student writers. Not only will it help students expand their vocabularies, this lightweight volume will help young people pick the perfect words to express their thought and feelings.
Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Marvin Terban
Publisher: Scholastic Reference
Book Description
With a brand new design, 1,000 additional words, and new fun sections like “The Four Longest Words in the English Language” and “The Spelling Words That Made Kids Champions,” this is the perfect spelling resource for students. The introduction gives instructions for looking up a word the [...]
Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Lynne Truss
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Book Description
Just as the use of commas was hilariously demystified in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!, now Lynne Truss and Bonnie Timmons put their talents together to do the same for apostrophes. Everyone needs to know where to put an apostrophe to [...]
Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: John McIlwain
Publisher: DK CHILDREN
