Penny and the Punctuation Bee - Hardcover

Donohue, Moira

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080756477X ISBN 13: 9780807564776

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company, 2008

Synopsis

Elsie, an exclamation point, announces loudly that she's sure she'll win the school Punctuation Bee. But Penny, a period, and her friend, Quentin, a question mark, decide to practice and practice. Penny wants to beat Elsie, who brags way too much!

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Jenny Law is a published illustrator of children's books. A published credit of Jenny Law is Penny and the Punctuation Bee.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 1–3—Penny, a period, and her friend Quentin, a question mark, are excited about the upcoming Punctuation Bee. Elsie, a brash and confident exclamation mark, points out that an exclamation mark has been victorious for the past three years, making Penny even more determined to win. Predictably, she takes the lead as the bell rings to end the competition. Savvy students of grammar will note logical flaws in the story. Connie the comma and Penny the period are awarded extra points for using their punctuation marks multiple times within a sentence, though other contestants could never receive more than one point. Penny's winning point is awarded erroneously; though she recites her sentence aloud, she is given a point for the written abbreviation of the word "Mister." While a few useful lessons can be found in the text, these examples are lost within the busy page design. Law's enthusiastically colorful, simplistic punctuation people do little to save Donohue's mediocre story. For a more compelling punctuation tale, try Jan Carr's Greedy Apostrophe (Holiday House, 2007).—Jayne Damron, Farmington Community Library, MI
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About this edition

• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 080756477X
• ISBN 13: 9780807564776
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Law Jenny