About this item
Get kids excited about learning! The Know-Nonsense Guide to Grammar is a hilariously illustrated, quirky, and fun guide that kids will love!Turn each page in this book to learn a new basic grammar concept, including alliteration, similes, hyperbole, and much more, turning what can at times be dry topics into something approachable and fun. Full of quirky and hilarious illustrations, kids will love learning so much they might even laugh out loud. Flex your literary muscles, and soon you'll be a regular wordsmith!
About the Author
I'm a writer and editor for children's book publishers and creatives. I do the deep thinking that's needed to turn an idea into a book that delights and inspires. The books I make are highly visual, quirky, playful, and a wee bit philosophical. After working in publishing for over ten years, I'm so excited to see my own picture books and chapter books making their way into the world.
Books have the power to spark our curiosity, encourage us to play, and make us all feel a little less alone, and it's been my pleasure to work on more than 300 titles for clients ranging from Target to Barnes & Noble. My credits include 180 nonfiction books in partnership with Time for Kids, 90 picture books, chapter books, and middle grade novels, plus a wide variety of activity books, and arts and crafts books. My clients also hire me to consult on new projects and teach workshops to writers and editors. I've also done a few things that never made it on to my resume:
Learned to make handmade pasta in a thousand-year-old Italian castle
Built award-winning store window displays, including a New Year's window inspired by Salvador Dali's melting clocks
Taught a Himalayan chai-shop owner to thumb wrestle
Blogged for BarnesandNoble.com on everything from What to Give Your Favorite Wes Anderson Fan to 15 Signs You Love Books More Than People
Reviewed manuscripts for Francis Ford Coppola's literary magazine, Zoetrope: All-Story
Interviewed the great woodworker Sam Maloof who said, "If it doesn't sit well, it's a lousy chair."
Studied historical book-cover colors for the Color Association of America
Found my people at SCBWI
Proofread everything from five-pound pharmaceutical manuals to novels and poetry
Developed the website Uncovered Cover Art to celebrate children's book artists
