Age Group: Adults

Description:

Eats, Shoots & Leaves is the gloriously witty and unexpectedly sensational bestseller that turned punctuation into a cultural talking point — a #1 New York Times and Sunday Times hit that nobody saw coming. Former editor and BBC Radio 4 presenter Lynne Truss takes up arms on behalf of the beleaguered comma, the misunderstood apostrophe, and the much-neglected semicolon, arguing with passionate (and very funny) indignation that proper punctuation matters enormously. Drawing on literary history — from the invention of the question mark under Charlemagne to George Orwell's principled shunning of the semicolon — and peppered with examples of punctuation disasters both hilarious and catastrophic, Truss makes an irresistible case for caring about the tiny marks that shape meaning entirely. The title itself is a joke: a panda who eats shoots and leaves is very different from one who eats, shoots, and leaves. For adult readers.