Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! [Hardcover]

Punctuation play at its finest!

Illuminating the comical confusion the lowly comma can cause, this new edition ofEats, Shoots & Leavesuses lively, subversive illustrations to show how misplacing or leaving out a comma can change the meaning of a sentence completely.

 

This picture book is sure to elicit gales of laughter—and better punctuation—from all who read it.

Lynne Truss is a writer and journalist who started out as a literary editor with a blue pencil and then got sidetracked. The author of three novels and numerous radio comedy dramas, she spent six years as the television critic ofThe Times of London, followed by four (rather peculiar) years as a sports columnist for the same newspaper. She won Columnist of the Year for her work for Women’s Journal. Lynne Truss also hosted Cutting a Dash, a popular BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation. She now reviews books for the Sunday Times of London and is a familiar voice on BBC Radio 4. She lives in Brighton, England.
BONNIE TIMMONS is best known for inspiring and creating images for the television showCaroline in the Cityand illustrating numerous national ad campaigns.Introduction – The Seventh Sense

Either this will ring bells for you, or it won’t. A printed banner has appeared on the concourse of a petrol station near to where I live. “Come inside,” it says, “for CD’s, VIDEO’s, DVD’s, and BOOK’s.”

If this satanic sprinkling of redundant apostrophes causes no little gasp of horror or quickening of the pulse, you should probably put down this book at once. By all means congratulate yourself that you are not a pedant or even a stickler; that you are happily equipped to live in a world of plummeting punctuation standards; but just don’t bother to go any further. For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apol³|