"A twisted fairytale that teaches punctuation with a smile."
This charming picture book is an Eats, Shoots and Leaves for children who are beginning to learn the meaning and usage of the four main punctuation marks. Here the author has invented them as characters in their own right and they come to the rescue of Red Hoodie, who has written a story about her and her Gran and a wolf, but it has all gone wrong!
The punctuation characters spring into action to help her story make sense. But she doesn’t know who they are and so the full stop, the exclamation mark ‘an excitable guy’, the question mark and what Red Hoodie thinks is a ‘cute and curly’ comma ( ‘don’t call me that. I’m a clever comma and I’m in charge here’). The whimsical pictures (Granny in a bag because of a missing full stop!) to illustrate the meaning that Red has mistakenly written, will raise lots of laughs.
This is a very different sort of twisted fairy tale that will serve a useful purpose as well as to entertain. I can see older children wanting to rewrite other fairy tales in the same style to prove how well they know their punctuation.

‘Red Hoodie is going to visit Granny in her bag. Red Hoodie has a cake, cookies and candy.’
PUNCTUATION can be confusing for younger children learning grammar... putting your full stops and commas in the wrong place can completely change the meaning of a sentence. So put fun into learning how to use punctuation marks with a delightful picture book from Gillian McClure, an author and illustrator with a Primary Teaching Diploma whose career has spanned four decades. Don’t Eat Granny – a clever and comical twist on the traditional story of Little Red Riding Hood – stars the far more cool and contemporary Red Hoodie who is trying to write a story about herself, her granny and a wolf, but some of her punctuation is wrong and consequently her sentences take on a different meaning. Oh dear, her story is getting out of control and it hasn’t ended happily for granny! Who will help her? Four little punctuation characters arrive on the page but soon they are caught up in the action, too! Packed full of punctuation jokes, wordplay and McClure’s entertaining artwork, this is the perfect book for mischievous youngsters who are learning the first four punctuation marks.
 

Red Riding Hood as you’ve never seen her before.
She’s Red Hoodie!
Yes, there’s wolf and a grannie. But is grannie going to be eaten?
No, because with her bag of tools, Red Hoodie comes to the rescue.
See how she does it in this cool, elegant and stylish version of an old story.