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I wanted to review punctuation with my daughters, and just happened to see this book on the library shelf.  They love it!  The text and the illustrations are really amusing.  My daughters, who are almost 12 and almost 10, have begged me to read it to them every day this week, some days multiple times.

All the punctuation marks go on vacation to Take-A-Break Lake.  They send back postcards to Mr. Wright's classroom that give clues which mark it is from.  My girls love saying who each postcard is from!  Meanwhile, in the classroom, nothing makes sense without punctuation, and they have to borrow some unruly punctuation from Mr. Rongo next door.  It ends up in all the wrong places, and today my daughters went through and told me where they all should be.  So the children ask punctuation to come back and they do.  The book ends with some punctuation rules, and on the very last page, there are amusing little anecdotes about the vacation.  For example, the period has a picture of himself stopping two sentences from crashing into each other on the corner of Bay St. and Lake Ave.

I also just saw on Amazon that the same author and illustrator have a book called "Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day" which I will pick up at the library next week.  I wanted to share this great book with everybody!