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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2003
Gr 1-3 "Day after day, the punctuation marks showed up in Mr. Wright's classroom. Day after day, they did their jobs. They put up with being erased and replaced and corrected and ignored and moved around." Miffed when the teacher quips, "Let's give punctuation a vacation," the various marks decide to take a trip and rush out the door. The class misses them almost im...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2003
"Day after day, the punctuation marks showed up in Mr. Wright's classroom. Day after day, they did their jobs." So when Mr. Wright offers his class a break during a lesson on commas ("Let's give punctuation a vacation") the punctuation marks get a little huffy. "'We should take a vacation,' said a period. 'They'll soon learn how much they need us.'" Off they go to...Log In or Sign Up to Read More