Brian P. Cleary

All aboard! Join a family of giraffes on their journey to Punctuation Station. As the train chugs along, you'll learn the ins and outs of using periods, commas, apostrophes, question marks, hyphens, quotation marks, and exclamation points! Playful rhymes from Brian P. Cleary and colorful illustrations from Joanne Lew-Vriethoff make learning about punctuation fun. So hop on board - this is one train ride you don't want to miss!

How in the world will you memorize everything you need to know for your next geography test? Brian P. Cleary can help! Hes made up acronyms, poems, riddles, songs, and more to help those tricky geography facts stick in your brain. And better yet, this book will give you ideas for how you can create your very own painless memory tricks.

One book is never enough to explore the wide range of synonyms! The crazy and zany cats deliver loads of additional examples to illustrate the power of synonyms to make writing superb or terrific. Brian P. Cleary's playful, rollicking verse and Brian Gable's comical cats or felines turn traditional grammar lessons on end. Each pair or group of synonyms is printed in color for easy and simple identification. Read this book aloud and share the delight of the sense - and nonsense - of words.

Humor is on sale at the Laugh Stand, so step up and pick out the laugh of your choice. From Tom Swifties—"'These are my underpants,' Tom said briefly."—to daffinitions—"Benign: What you are after you be eight."—to pangrams, anagrams, and even word diagrams, readers will chuckle their way through this adventure in humor.

Brian Cleary and Brian Gable bring their trademark sense of humor to the subject of measuring length. A rhyming text filled with funny examples explains how to use and compare metric and U.S. customary units of length. Readers are also introduced to the tools they need to measure length—rulers, metersticks, and more.