One book is never enough to explore the incredibly wide range of adverbs! The goofy cats crazily deliver loads of additional examples to entertaningly illustrate the power of adverbs, including phrasal adverbs. Brian P. Cleary's playful verse and Brian Gable's comical cats magically turn traditional grammar lessons on end. Each adverb is cleverly color coded to help readers identify adverbs of manner, adverbs of time, and more. Read this book aloud and share the delight of the sense--and nonsense--of words.
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Cleary and cartoonist Gable offer a second romp with adverbs for children who need more examples beyond those given in the team’s Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: A Book about Adverbs (2005) as well as for those who simply enjoy the merry madness that marks the Words Are CATegorical series. Comical line drawings zapped with color show animals in a wide variety of roles, from tourist to cowboy to knight. Meanwhile, the rhyming verses gallop along, playfully brandishing adverbs galore. Color coding differentiates adverbs that tell you when (pink), where (purple), how often (green), and so on. A jolly treatment of the topic. Grades 2-5. --Carolyn Phelan
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Brian P. Cleary is the creator of the best-selling Words Are CATegorical(tm) series, now a 13-volume set with more than 2 million copies in print. He is also the author of the Math Is CATegorical(tm) series and the single titles Rainbow Soup: Adventures in Poetry, Rhyme and PUNishment: Adventures in Wordplay, Eight Wild Nights: A Family Hanukkah Tale, Peanut Butter and Jellyfishes: A Very Silly Alphabet Book and The Laugh Stand: Adventures in Humor. Mr. Cleary lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
Brian Gable is the illustrator of several Words Are CATegorical(tm) books, as well as the Make Me Laugh joke books and the Math Is CATegorical(tm) series. Mr. Gable lives in Toronto, Canada, where he also works as a political cartoonist for the Globe and Mail newspaper.
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Brian P. Cleary is the creator of the best-selling Words Are CATegorical® series, now a 16-volume set with more than 2.4 million copies in print. He is also the author of the Math Is CATegorical® series and several single titles including The Laugh Stand: Adventures in Humor and Rainbow Soup: Adventures in Poetry.
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Learning the parts of speech can be a daunting task for some youngsters, but these lazy crazy cats will help BIG time!,
This review is from: Lazily, Crazily, Just a Bit Nasally: More about Adverbs (Words Are Categorical) (Hardcover)
A brown cat had his staff in hand and was trying to see where his sheep had gone to. Some of those wiggly eyed critters were right next to him while the others were over there. Of course an adverb can "sometimes tell us where." They can also tell us when. Two jazzy cats with sunnies and visors were admiring the statue of a long gone hero cat, but they knew that "this is now and that was then." Three goofy cows watched their pal as he got his collar stuck on the edge of a waning moon. "Adverbs sometimes tell us how" and someone would have to "carefully remove this cow." Wow! They can tell you how often or modify a verb. Can you tell what is going on with the zany cats and adverbs in this rhyme?Lazily sleeping, nasally weeping, a dude eating food while he's rudely beep-beeping. Crazily, Curtis repainted the Chang bridge. Adverbs add all kinds of life to our language! For some youngsters trying to learn about different parts of speech and their functions can be a daunting task, but because adverbs have many different functions, it is sometimes difficult for them to learn and categorize them. The cats in this book will let you know by example (and in some zany rhymes) that an "adverb is a word or phrase that describes, when, how, where, how often, and how much." The adverbs are color coded to make it easier to sort them. For example, the word "seldom" is printed in green because it tells the young student that it tells how often something was done. The illustrations are vibrant, animated and comical which add that much needed visual touch to learning. This is one in the series of "Words Are CATegorical," a series you might want to look into for homeschool or classroom use!
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This review is from: Lazily, Crazily, Just a Bit Nasally: More about Adverbs (Words Are Categorical) (Hardcover)
If you enjoy words, Brian Cleary's books are delightful to read aloud, especially with a child. We have many of his "crazily rhymes" in books that teach youngsters even when they think they're just having fun. Easy to read but sound in grammatical principles.
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great book for homeschooling!,
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This review is from: Lazily, Crazily, Just a Bit Nasally: More about Adverbs (Words Are Categorical) (Paperback)
I Homeschool and this whole series of books is FANTASTIC in teaching parts of speech! Even older ADULTS learn from these books! If you have kids, you "GOTTA' HAVE THESE BOOKS!"
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