The Girl's Like Spaghetti : Why, You Can't Manage Without Apostrophes!
School Library Journal Review: Gr 2?5?Truss and Timmons pair up again to deliver another humorous and educationally effective book about punctuation, this one dealing with the misuse of the apostrophe. In the same format as Eats, Shoots and Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! (Putnam, 2006), this book presents readers with two identical sentences whose meaning changes with the simple placement of the apostrophe. The plural versus the possessive is depicted through lively cartoons illustrating the sentences. Truss again manages to keep her lessons funny and full of kid appeal with examples such as, "Those smelly things are my brother's" and "those smelly things are my brothers." Just as in the earlier title, endnotes give detailed explanations of all of the sentences, describing how their meaning is strongly influenced by the almighty apostrophe. Pair this fun and interactive book with similarly themed titles by Brian Cleary or Ruth Heller. Wordplay or "grammarplay" at its finest.?Jennifer Cogan, Bucks County Free Library, Doylestown, PA Copyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.