This book is very effective in assisting students and others with visual cues to ensure correct usage of these often confused words. The author has provided a means to clear up conflicting views as the words presented here are among some of the most challenging.

This is a reference book that should be on everyone’s bookshelf or desk. It also makes a great gift!

I voluntarily reviewed a copy of this book provided by the publisher and Net Galley but the thoughts expressed are my own.

This is a really cool book!  There's a section on confusing words - like words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings like college vs collage.  She gives you tricks to remember how to use each and which spelling to you like coll<b>e</b>ge is a place of <b>e</b>education and coll<b>a</b>ge is <b>a</b>rt.  Tons of examples of these types of words with drawings.  There are also tricky everyday words like bargain.  A good bar<b>gain</b> is always a <b>gain</b>.   Lots of good tricks for remembering how to spell correctly.  There's also a section on academic and more formal words like <b>amiable</b>- <b>am I able</b> to help you?  It seems like this would be a great help to those who aren't good at spelling or who don't have English as a first language.

200 Tricky Spellings in Cartoons
Visual Mnemonics for Everyone - US edition
by Lidia Stanton
Back of the Book: “The new revised edition of Lidia Stanton's bestselling book of cartoons demystifying over 200 of the most difficult spellings, fully adapted for a US readership. The book is structured around confusing pairs of words, such as homophones or words that 'go together', tricky everyday words and tricky academic words, with memorable illustrations on every page to help you connect the word's meaning and graphical features with its spelling pattern.
This is not a traditional spelling book, but a resource that will really get you thinking, and laughing out loud. This guide encourages active learning and recollection, breaking away from repetitive methods such as 'look, cover, write, check', enabling you to effortlessly recall and identify once-confusing spelling patterns.”
Impressions: I did not read this book from cover to cover however used this book as the author suggests as a reference guide. This being said it was not a great reference as an ebook due to being unable to flip back and forth for reference. I think the beginning could have better explained the differences between homophones, homonyms, and homographs. It would have also been helpful to have definitions with the words as well as the cartoon to help understand better what each word means. This was a cute book but there was room for improvement.
I received a copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review shared here.

As a primary school teacher this book has given me inspiration to use within spelling lessons. A lot of the words in this book are part of the Year Five/Six spelling curriculum and introducing the children to some of the strategies outlined will really support the progress and success of spelling in the classroom

I was a bit disappointed in this book.  The illustrations were well done but often felt very static.  It felt too wordy if this book was geared for readers who are having trouble distinguishing correct usage of pairs of similar words.  I would recommend this book to middle-grade students or younger book worms who would find pleasure in the humor of the illustrations.

I know this book is probably aimed mainly at younger children, but as a secondary school teacher I can tell you that many of my students have issues with spelling certain words - and not just the students who are lower ability, either!  And honestly I know some adults who could do with the reminders, too.

This book is full of words that are tricky to spell, with each word having a page with a cartoon and a sentence or two telling a story to help remember the spelling.  There are also several pages featuring words that are similar (eg. affect and effect) with ways to remember which is which.

If it wasn't for the fact that it's based on US english and I'm in the UK, I'd be recommending this to loads of students.  And honestly, given how few words there are in here that are different, I'm still tempted.

What a brilliant book full of cartoons to help children remember tricky spellings and different homophones. I love that it explains to children that an easy way to remember spellings is to create a kind of story and an image to go along with the spelling. The examples are brilliant and I will definitely be sharing this book and the cartoon examples with my year 5 class when we're back in school, I think it could be just the tool to help them grasp those trickier spellings.

Plenty of benefits to this book, I’m sure it will assist children to remember tricky spellings. It is an American book, so worth noting the different spellings, at times, from UK spellings.

Great idea for helping pupils remember tricky spellings of words which are similar to each other. This is the American edition of the book so has some differences to those that would be in the UK edition.

Thank you #NetGalley and Lidia Stanton for this fun read of the visual mnemonics for everyone. My brother is a teacher and my grandma was a resource teacher so I had opportunity to show them bits of this book and they agreed this would / will be very helpful for all elementary- middle school children. 

Mnemonics weren't something I was readily taught in school, and this book would have been super helpful to have when I was younger. I particularly loved the cartoons, colouring and visual-cues in addition to the helpful phrases, rhymes and mnemonics. I'm keeping this book ear-marked for the current and future kids in my life! :)

This book is full of great tips and advice on how to remember tricky spelling for children. It is a great resource to have at hand when they are writing. There is an index so you can quickly look
Up The word you want to spell. I found the examples on homophones to be useful, with helpful ways to get children to remember which homophone to use. Great resource to use at home and in education.

I liked how this book was formatted with both pictures and sentences using the words. I also appreciated the index in the back so it was easy to find the word you were struggling with. It was easy to understand and I think many people who struggle with spelling or remembering the definition of some words will find this book helpful.

- M

Pros:  This was a delightful book of cartoons to help kids learn words that aren’t spelled how they sound like they should be spelled.  Adults could also benefit from reading this book and learning or relearning proper spelling and grammar (e.g. affect v. effect; aisle v. isle; desert v. dessert). Some of these mnemonics are ones I learned as a kid, and many others were new to me.

Cons: I think this book would be even better if the cartoons were in color. It’s possible that just the review copy is in black and white and the published book will have color.  

Thank you to NetGalley and Jessica Kingsley Publishers for the opportunity to read this review copy!

I 100% think that this book should be in every home, classroom, library, workplace.... anywhere that their are people, this needs to be! 
I cannot believe how much that I have picked up from reading it - it is easy to read, accessible and appropriate for all ages where spelling becomes essential! 
As a teacher, I will definitely be purchasing a copy to share with my class.
10/10!

I would recommend this book to 4th - 8th grade teachers who teach the art of writing. There are some really great illustrations and ideas on how and when to use some tricky words (for example, accept and except). This book could come in handy in those teachable moments that just pop up during lessons.

200 Tricky Spellings in Cartoons is interesting.  However I did not find it especially easy to use and some of the descriptions were confusing.

This didn't really do it for me. I found the stories were sometimes so random and had nothing to do with the word they were supposedly helping you to spell, which just made it all more confusing. I also disliked the gender stereotypes that appear throughout.

Some of these cartoons and memory tricks will be helpful for kids (or adults) but many of them are just weird and will not stick for most people. A lot of them involve telling a story and then you remember the story to remember how to spell the word (like a boy has to brake his car because there's a bra in the road, so remember bra is in brake). They're such stretches and not normal things you'd associate with each other that I can't see you really remembering them. There were a few that were clever, but the book became overly long pretty quickly and not that much fun to read. I'm not sure how many kids would really read through this book and also commit the mnemonics to memory, but there are some fun gems in it.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

What a great book! Such a fun and clever way to teach the spelling of tricky words! This is definitely a book I will be using in my primary school classroom!

This book would be a great addition to a classroom, middle grade or even middle school as it provides some great tips/tricks to remember the difference between words. I even found it helpful while reading! The accompanying illustrations also help add to the mnemonics to remember the differences.