The Great Grammar Book by by Kate Petty, illustrated by Jennie Maizels

The Great Grammar Book by Kate Petty, illustrated by Jennie Maizels

Candlewick Press, 2018, 14 pages

Today is National Grammar Day, and that means it's a great day to share this completely fun interactive grammar book. Kids can play while they learn what nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions,plural, possessives, punctuation and the sentence are and how and when to use them.

If you've ever had to teach grammar to young kids, you know how quickly just the word can turn them off. Here, however, kids will have fun lifting the flaps, pulling the tabs, and turning the wheels as they learn. Heck, even I had fun playing with this book and I know the different parts of speech.

I particularly liked how the use of adjectives, adverbs and prepositions were presented. These are probably the three parts of speech kids (and lots of adults) have the most trouble with. Petty cleverly uses a  flip book to demonstrate adjectives:

 a lift the flap for adjectives:

 and a wonderful pop-up show when to use the right preposition:

And yes, the prepositions is my favorite because they are harder for kids to grasp. 

Each part of speech in given either a single or double page spread with lots of activity for all of them. Each part of speech is defined and its use is simply and clearly shown. The engaging book takes the struggle out of learning grammar and what could be better than that.  

This book is recommended for readers age 7+

I would like to thank Candlewick Press for providing me with a copy of this book.