Eats, Shoots, and Leaves

Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss and Bonnie Timmons uses humorous examples to show the reader what a huge difference the use of comma makes when writing a sentence. In the beginning of the book a panda bear is explaining how he is now expected to eat, then shoot someone with an arrow then leave because of a grammatical error someone made with a comma. Instead the panda should be eating shoots and leaves, but since the comma was in the wrong place, his actions changed drastically. The book was incredibly comical, yet taught a very important lesson. The end of the book contains pictures of each page and reasons why the insertion of commas changes the meaning. This is a great book that could be used to teach grammar and comma usage to children in a fun way. I would definitely recommend this book for children ages 5-8, and I would use this book in my classroom!