Words Are Categorical Lazily Crazily About Adverbs

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. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Editorial Reviews From Booklist 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 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. About the Author 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. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.