books by Lynne Truss     books:     Lynne Truss      The Girl's Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can't Manage without Apostrophes! Lynne Truss Putnam Juvenile, 2007 The Girl's Like Spaghetti is great! I ordered this book to use in my 6th grade classroom. The pictures show the meaning of similar sentences with and without apostrophes. Using this book brings humor to reinforcing correct punctuation in writing for students and adults alike. The book includes the rules ...             Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! Lynne Truss Putnam Juvenile, 2006 Great book for children of many ages I ordered this book thinking it might be too young for my 9-year-old daughter. However, when it arrived it was pored over by not only my 9-year-old, but her 13-year-old brother as well. The copy I sent to my sister's children (ages 5 and 7) was also well-received. ...             Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Stella Gibbons Penguin Classics, 2006 Rural Gothic The humor of this glorious funny book resides mainly in Gibbons' masterly control of prose style; if you have only seen the movie, you know less than half of what the author has to offer. Yes, she creates a wonderful gallery of extraordinary characters, and the story ...             Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Lynne Truss, 2006 Perfect Gift Since first reading this book when it first came out, I have purchased about a dozen copies as gifts for students and for friends and former colleagues whose jobs require a lot of report writing. Though toungue-in-cheeky, this very entertaining book provides all the ...             Eats, Shoots & Leaves Lynne Truss Penguin Audio, 2004             Twenty-Odd Ducks: Why, every punctuation mark counts! Lynne Truss Putnam Juvenile, 2008 Commas and apostrophes aren’t the only punctuation marks that can cause big trouble if they’re put in the wrong place. Now, Truss and Timmons put hyphens, parentheses, quotation marks, periods, and more in the spotlight, showing how which marks you choose and where you put them can cause hilarious mix-ups.             Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the ... Lynne Truss Gotham, 2005 I like this book because I am like Lynne Truss I found this book very interesting, and I believe it meant a lot to me because I see the lack of courtesy today as an indication of the looming decay of civilization! My blood pressure goes up when I hold open a door and people walk past me as if I wasn't there. I ...             Eats Shoots & Leaves: 2009 Day-to-Day Calendar Lynne Truss Universe Publishing, 2008 This word lover and wordsmith's calendar is based on the punctuation sensation Eats, Shoots and Leaves . With such observations as "people truly do not know their apostrophe from their elbow," Lynne Truss has made "the history of punctuation a subject at once urgent, sexy, and hilarious" (John Walsh, The Independent ).             Eats, Shoots & Leaves Illustrated Edition Lynne Truss Gotham, 2008 Now in a handsome, hilariously illustrated new edition: The stickler-tickling punctuation polemic that has sold more than 1.6 million copies in North America is even more fun with the whimsical art of acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist Pat Byrnes. The runaway bestseller that has everyone minding their p’s and q’s (and their commas and semicolons), ...             Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Lynne Truss Gotham, 2006 I Like the Audio Better than the Hard Cover Since 531 people have already reviewed Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation and a gozillian people have reacted with comments when they voted, I am being assertive by thinking I can add something. By the way, the other reviews are ...             Eats, Shoots & Leaves: 2008 Day-To-Day Calendar Lynne Truss Universe Publishing, 2007             Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt The ... Lynne Truss Gotham, 2006 Truss Comes Back Fighting the Extinction of Etiquette Embittered albeit bemused finger-wagging appears to be author Lynne Truss' specialty, and I have to say I find her newest little tome on the global lack of respect and good manners even more cutting than her bad grammar colonic, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero ...             Polite Conversation (Hesperus Classics) Jonathan Swift Hesperus Press, 2007 A companion piece to the popular Directions to Servants , Polite Conversation is a witty, brilliantly conceived treatise on manners and small talk from the master of English satire. Beginning with an "expert" introduction to the perils of ill-educated discourse, Swift seeks to offer a remedy for conversational disasters. His aim: to ensure one ...             Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home Lynne Truss Penguin Audio, 2005 FIGHTING RAMPANT RUDENESS WITH WIT AND WRY REMARKS If memory serves, I described Lynn Truss's first audio book, "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" as great good fun and the author as having an unstoppable, irresistible wit. I'll gleefully use the same description for "Talk to the Hand," the indefatigable author/observer's take ...             The Girl's Like Spaghetti Lynne Truss Profile Books, 2007          products you might be interested in search for books apostrophes, conversation, day-to-day, illustrated, punctuation, twenty-odd      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: Dr. Seuss's ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book!