about the book
Poor little outcast Exclamation Mark feels like he doesn’t fit in anywhere. He’s tried standing at the front of the sentence. He’s tried standing at the end of one. He’s tried squishing down his tall, tall vertical dash to fit in with the Periods.
Almost everything he has tried to do to fit in has failed. He twists his dash and curls it, but it never stays curled. He just doesn’t know what his job is…
Until a too-inquisitive Question Mark comes along: “Hello? Who are you? When’s your birthday? Know any good jokes?”
So many questions, Exclamation Mark can’t take it anymore: “Stop!”
And that’s when Exclamation Mark discovered what he can do: Shout!
about the author
Amy Krouse Rosenthal is the prolific author of more than 21 books for adults and children. She also hosts a radio show called “Writers’ Block Party,” on Chicago Public Radio and creates short films. Many of her essays and articles have appeared in well-known magazines and newspapers.
Amy lives in Chicago with her husband and three children. When she’s not writing at a coffeehouse, Amy is doing yoga, carpooling, going to her children’s sporting events, trying to figure out what to make for dinner, and sleeping—one of her favorite activities.
Sources:
Author website
Author interview : Jama Rattigan’s Alphabet Soup
Author page : Amazon
Also by Amy Krouse Rosenthal:
I Scream, Ice Scream! : A Book of Wordles. Chronicle Books. 2013.
Wumbers. Chronicle Books. 2012.
]Al Pha’s Bet. Putnam Publishing. 2011.
This Plus That : Life’s Little Equations. Harper Collins. 2011.
One Smart Cookie : Bite-Size Lessons for the School Year and Beyond. Harper Collins. 2010.
The Wonder Book. Harper Collins. 2010.
Duck! Rabbit! Chronicle Books. 2009.
Sugar Cookies: Sweet Little Lessons on Love. HarperCollins. 2009.
Little Oink with Jen Corace. Chronicle Books. 2009.
Yes Day! with Tom Lichtenheld. HarperCollins. 2009.
Christmas Cookies: Bite-Size Holiday Lessons. HarperCollins. 2008.
It’s Not Fair! with Tom Lichtenehld. HarperCollins. 2008.
Little Hoot. Chronicle Books. 2007.
One of Those Days. Putnam. 2006.
Little Pea. Chronicle Books. 2005.
about the illustrator
Tom Lichtenheld was born in 1953 in Nixon, Illinois. When he was a kid, he loved drawing pictures of ships and trucks. He would also spend hours looking at the drawings in National Geographic.
Years later, Tom created a bunch of pirate drawings for his nephew and made a book out of the many pages (he even burned the edges of the paper to make it look like a real pirate book). It took four years before a publisher accepted his idea—but he never gave up.
Tom keeps his eyes and ears open whenever he’s around kids. His best ideas come from kids because they are so smart!
Tom now lives in Geneva, Illinois with his wife, Jan, who helps him write the endings of his books—the hardest part. Tom also gets a lot of help from his cats who lay on his pencils, drawings, hands, and anything else that will slow him down! Tom doesn’t have children of his own, but he keeps pictures of smiling, laughing children above his desk to remind him of what it’s like to be a child.
Sources:
Illustrator website
Illustrator blog
Illustrator interview : Daily Herald
Also by Tom Lichtenheld:
Sing by Joe Raposo. Henry Holt. 2013.
Steam Train, Dream Train by Sherri Duskey Rinker. Chronicle Books. 2013.
Wumbers by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Chronicle Books. 2012.
Zero the Hero by Joan Holub. Henry Holt. 2012.
E-Mergency!. Chronicle Books. 2011.
Cloudette. Henry Holt. 2011.
What’s With This Room?. Little Brown Company. 2005.
What Are You So Grumpy About?. Little Brown Company. 2003.
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E-Mergency! by Tom Lichtenheld
When the letter E slips, injuring herself, EMTs arrive with lots of TLC and an IV and whisk her off to the hospital. To help her get better, no one is allowed to use the letter E. O is tapped to be her substitute. When it is discovered that E is not getting better, the alphabet realizes someone is still using the letter. Now who can that be?
Moo! by David LaRochelle
A farmer puts a For Sale sign on his red car, and the cow’s interest is piqued. When the farmer’s leaves, she jumps in and roars off. “Mooo…!” She tools through the green hills as she “Moooooos…” And when the car hurtles out of control and crashes, she says to the patrol officer, “Moo-moo! Moo-moomoo- moo!” But what will her excuse be to the farmer?
This Plus That : Life’s Little Equations by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Everyone can do equations with numbers. That’s just plain old math. It takes a special insight to do equations with words! Words plus other words add up to things, too: “wishes + frosting = birthday.” “Birds + buds = spring.” “Tall + coffee = grown-up!”