Product Description

An introduction to parts of speech and punctuation features lavishly detailed spreads that are packed with interactive flaps, tabs, wheels, and pop-ups and highlight lively animal characters who guide readers on a fun grammatical tour.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #313253 in Books
• Published on: 1996-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 14 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Outfitted with a lavish complement of hinged paper doors and pull-tabs, this remarkable primer puts razzle-dazzle paper engineering in the service of a typically dry subject, the parts of speech. Noisy colors, busy cartoons of talking animals and hand-lettered text advertise dozens upon dozens of pop-up features, with a wealth of educational information crammed onto every page. Nouns, verbs and adjectives get a spread apiece, while such grammatical forms as adverbs and prepositions are given single-page overviews. Diversions include rotating paper wheels ("Don't stop! Keep moving! Verbs are action words"), sliding scrolls to illustrate plurals and possessives, and a reflective-paper mirror to acquaint readers with the pronouns "you," "I" and "we." A closing "Lift the flaps and make a sentence" exercise reviews the previous material. The effect is chaotic, but verbal cues guide the eye through the kaleidoscopic cartoons. Adult encouragement may be necessary for readers more interested in the cut-out windows than the finer points of punctuation. Yet the authors have done an excellent job; their language lesson masquerades as a boisterous game. Ages 7-up.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Customer Reviews

Way Cool Grammar Review or First-time Presentation!
After playing with this book myself for 20 minutes, I decided that my daughter, who struggles with grammar, would enjoy going through it and reviewing. Even at age 10, she found it entertaining, and even took it to bed to read before falling asleep (WHAT? A GRAMMAR BOOK? ). As a kinetic learner, it made a huge impact on her; it is literally a "hands-on" presentation of basic grammatical concepts. I believe it would be an extremely useful tool for any classroom teacher to incorporate into their lessons, as well!

Fun, easy to learn grammar book. Great!
My kids like all the pop-up which are well done. Our second grade teacher borrowed it...it came back with a few of the pop-ups destroyed but I'm buying a second copy. It is easy to really understand the grammar concepts after going through the book. It was a good way for an adult to learn too--just in case you want to know about prepositions or adverbs or other long forgotten concepts.

My children stuck their noses into this book!
They really enjoyed this book!

I didn't believe anyone can make "grammar" interesting to children. I have been teaching children English grammar for ten years. I was bored to teach them such boring things but the author of this book has changed my thought absolutely.

I want to show them this book, but I'm afraid my children won't let it go until they have read it thousands of times!