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A fat cat, sad because it came in last in a race, is cheered by its pals.

Today, most young readers know the carols many people sing at Christmastime, including Oh, Christmas Tree and Jolly Old St. Nicholas.

"A spunky young girl from Colombia loves playing with her canine best friend and resists boring school activities, especially learning English, until her family tells her that a special trip is planned to an English-speaking place"--OCLC.

A red hen begs to get in bed with its owner but is soon ejected because of its wet legs.

"Delores, a young girl, goes exploring around town and collects the big words that grown-ups use but does she know what they mean?"--OCLC.

Provides an introduction to nouns, explaining what they are, and looking at how they function in sentences.

Explains what pronouns are, describes various kinds, presents examples, and includes quick tips and an exercise.

Provides an introduction to verbs, explaining what they are, and looking at how they function in sentences.

Uses illustrated personifications to help teach adjectives.

". . . charts the rise and fall of this infamous punctuation mark [the semicolon], which for years was the trendiest one in the world of letters. But in the nineteenth century, as grammar books became all the rage, the rules of how we use language became both stricter and more confusing, with the semicolon a prime victim. Taking [readers] on a . . . journey through a range of examples--from Milton's manuscripts to Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letters from Birmingham Jail' to Raymond Chandler's 'The Big Sleep'--Watson reveals how traditional grammar rules make [people] less successful at communicating with each other than [they'd] think . . ."--Amazon.