This collection of poems -- written by a number of well-known children's authors such as Jane Yolen and Charles Ghigna -- is all about the functions of punctuation. That might sound dull, but it's actually done in a clever and humorous way.

For instance, the colon laments about its lack of use by saying things like: "I'm hidden away in a textbook: Punctuation Made Easy, no less. Page forty-three is devoted to me, but nobody reads it, I guess. The comma, incredibly common, butts right into line after line. Couldn't there be a small place for me: just one little sentence that's mine?"

The accompanying illustrations for each poem incorporate the punctuation mark(s) into the scene, which is generally funny, although I do personally find the quotation marks as eyes a little bit creepy.

Because a somewhat working knowledge of punctuation is required to 'get' these poems, I'd recommend this book for children in first grade and up. It will definitely help reinforce what they're learning/have learned by giving them these funny poems and illustrations that make the point of each punctuation mark readily apparent. ( )