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Sunday, March 25, 2012

The Girl's Like Spaghetti

Book Title: The Girl’s Like Spaghetti
Author(s): Lynne Truss
Illustrator/Photographer/ Artist: Bonnie Timmons
Publisher: The Penguin Group
Copyright Date: 2007
Genre: Non-Fiction
Brief Annotation: This is another very funny book in the punctuation series. This time the focus is on the importance of apostrophes and their many jobs. Each time you turn the page the book has the same sentence on each page with the apostrophe moved and a very funny and very different picture. The picture illustrates the difference the apostrophe makes to whole sentence, and how it completly changes the function of some of the words in the sentence.
Your Rating (1-5) and Why: I rate this book a five because it is cute, funny and educational.
Readers who will like this book: I think readers as young as three all the way to adult will like this book.
Question to ask about this book before you read aloud: Do you think punctuation can change the meaning of words?
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  1. Suzy Kaback & FamilyMarch 31, 2012 at 5:11 AM

    I'm glad you discovered this book, and I wish we'd had more time in class to discuss it because the clever word play, based on punctuation, is a powerful teaching tool. I was fascinated to know that you chose this book as your read aloud selection. In fact, I wish I'd been there when you read it to see the extent of kids' reactions and comments. I could see using the examples in this book (and others by Truss or books by Ruth Heller--have you seen these?) on a daily basis to introduce a playfulness with words while learning about the place of punctuation and word choice in our writing.

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