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| The Girl's Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can't Manage Without Apostrohpes! (July 2007) |
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| In her adult bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!, Lynne Truss added a metaphorical exclamation point to the importance of punctuation. In The Girl's like Spaghetti, she teams up with illustrator Bonnie Timmons to show young readers the appropriate uses of apostrophes. Even savvy adults don't always know when to add that high-flying mark to plurals or possessives. This entertaining picture book instructs us with its (note absence of apostrophe) often whimsical examples. (Source: barnesandnoble.com) |
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Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
(November 2005) |
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| In the spirit of her over two-million-copies-sold #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots and Leaves, the Queen of Zero Tolerance takes on the sorry state of modern manners. When did the world stop wanting to hear? When did society become so thoughtless? It's a topic that has been simmering for years, and Truss says it's now reached a boiling point. Taking on the boorish behavior that for some has become a point of pride, Talk to the Hand is a rallying cry for courtesy sure to inspire spirited conversation.
(Source: Profile Books) |
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| Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation |
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| Who would have thought a book about punctuation could cause such a sensation? Certainly not its modest if indignant author, who began her surprise hit motivated by "horror" and "despair" at the current state of English usage: ungrammatical signs ("BOB,S PETS"), headlines ("DEAD SONS PHOTOS MAY BE RELEASED") and band names ("Hear'Say") drove journalist and novelist Truss absolutely batty. But this spirited and wittily instructional little volume, which became a worldwide bestseller, is not a grammar book, Truss insists; like a self-help volume, it "gives you permission to love punctuation."
(Source: Publishers Weekly) |
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| Eats, Shoots and Leaves: Why Commas Really Do Make a Difference (July 2006) |
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| The title of this clever, creative commentary on commas is the same as the author's bestselling grammatical guide for adults, but the concept here is quite different. The first two pages introduce the titular panda who eats (a sandwich), shoots (two arrows from his bow) and then leaves the scene, followed by an author's note on the importance of the comma in written communication. In the following pages, each spread offers a pair of sentences differing by just one or two commas. For example, on one page, a school crossing guard and students illustrate "Slow, children crossing." The facing page shows dawdling children on a bridge with the text, "Slow children crossing." The witty sentences increase in complexity (and hilarity), augmented by sophisticated watercolor-and-ink illustrations with New Yorker flair. A final spread reprises the entire text with miniature illustrations and specific grammatical explanations. Elementary-school teachers will love this lighthearted but instructive effort, as will their students, who will never look at a comma again in quite the same way. (Source: Kirkus Reviews) |
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| The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels |
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| Lynne Truss debuted in America as a guffaw-inducing grammarian, but her British audience has known her for years as a critically acclaimed novelist and columnist. Her previous works are now available stateside in one volume, complete with a new preface. (Source: Profile Books) |
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Tennyson’s Gift
(Available in the UK. Included in The Lynne Truss Treasury, available in the U.S.)
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| An imaginative cocktail of Victorian seriousness and farce that re-imagines the world of the nineteenth-century English poet laureate, placing him in the midst of eccentric company that includes dodgy Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll. (Source: Profile Books) |
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With One Lousy Free Packet of Seeds
(Available in the UK. Included in The Lynne Truss Treasury, available in the U.S.)
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| A raucous comedy of errors, follows the exploits of Osborne Lonsdale, who writes a weekly column called "Me and My Shed" for a floundering gardening magazine. When the publication is taken over by a gung-ho management team, Lonsdale must learn to cope with his new coworkers. (Source: Profile Books) |
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Going Loco
(Available in the UK. Included in The Lynne Truss Treasury, available in the U.S.)
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| A critic tries to write a definitive account of the doppelgänger in gothic fiction, amidst the chaos of her domestic life, including paranoia that her cleaning lady is taking over her life. (Source: Profile Books) |
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Making The Cat Laugh
(Available in the UK. Included in The Lynne Truss Treasury, available in the U.S.)
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| A riotous collection of columns about single life. Truss comments on dating, secondhand smoking, shopping, holidays, and people who ask, "How's the novel going?" All the while, she continues an eighteen-year quest to make her cat laugh. Reportedly, the feline remains unimpressed. |
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