First of all, I could not get a read on the target audience for this book. The pictures and examples were geared for young children, but the explanation for what a dangling participle is seemed more geared towards teens or even adults. As an English major, I didn't feel that the lesson was conveyed in the lesson section, and the reader had a better chance of getting it with the list of examples provided. How a young child should get this is beyond me.

I want my entire Diploma of Writing & Editing taught like this, thanks.

Months of struggling with verbs, participles, and the like, and it takes what amounts to a children's book to explain it to me. And one with illustrations.

I'm sold. More, please.

It's tough out there for grammar nerds these days. The internet, Twitter and handheld devices have helped lower the standards of communication and the English language as I learned it. I'm not sure if Mad Libs deserve the credit or blame for my high grammatical standards, but I learned parts of speech before my classmates and I've been a word nerd ever since. I think it's great to teach kids parts of speech at a young age and in a fun way. The illustrations are great and there's nothing better than when kids accidentally learn something while doing something fun.

This book had funny examples and illustrations of how to correct dangling participles. I would definitely use this book in my classroom to introduce the topic, and I could even see this being used to jumpstart a class book or to pair students off and have them come up with their own examples.