Most Popular Books by Marvin Terban

A practical guide to grammar and usage, covering such topics as parts of speech, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and idioms.

This fun book can help kids develop their own vast, vital, and vivid vocabulary with line art and a kid-friendly tone. Illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

“Enjoyable and informative . . . Using this humorously presented book, children will truly improve their styles of writing” (School Library Journal). Writing “The road was bumpy” is okay . . . but isn’t it more fun to say “It felt like we were riding on square tires”? This lively guide shows kids how to make their writing more dramatic, more memorable, or just plain funnier—whether they’re writing for school or for creative expression. It explains six techniques: Similes Metaphors Onomatopoeia Alliteration Hyperbole Personification . . . and provides guidelines for their use, plenty of examples, and entertaining illustrations.

A collection of over seventy riddles using homographs, words that are spelled the same but differ in meaning and pronunciation.

Thirty common English phrases, such as "a chip off the old block" and "cry over spilled milk" are illustrated and explained.

An updated introduction to American slang and phrase origins identifies and defines more than six hundred commonly used idioms, complementing the entries with kid-friendly sample sentences and entertaining illustrations. Original.

A practical guide to grammar, usage, spelling, and vocabulary.

With an alphabetical listing of more than 15,000 words, useful rules, and an index of commonly misspelled words, this guide can help any student conquer the spelling dilemma. Illustrations.

Illustrates and explains over 100 common English idioms, in categories including animals, body parts, and colors.

A collection of progressively harder to guess palindrome riddles.

This collection of original riddles is unlike any other because the main words in each answer sound exactly alike, but have different meanings. Zany illustrations add to the fun and provide clues to the solutions. And the newly designed full-color cover makes the package even more appealing. So dig in--and see why you should play with your words (not with your food)!

Introduces and explains more than 100 expressions which mean something different than the separate words in the group. For example: raise the roof, hold your horses, and beat around the bush.

An abundant cache of ideas for using words and wordplay to create engaging riddles and jokes.

Explores the plural forms of 100 irregular nouns such as mouse/mice in humorous rhymes and tongue twisters. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Trace the origins of more than 100 eponymous words—words derived from the names of people and places. What food was first cooked up in Hamburg, Germany? Hamburgers What country is named after the Italian sailor Amerigo Vespucci? America What do you call people and places whose names become words? Eponyms! Meet the people and places behind more than 100 eponymous words and read the fascinating stories of why words were created for them. What would be the meaning of a word named after you?

Poochie meets Hover Hound and rescues several of her friends in his hot air balloon.

Explains the purpose and importance of punctuation and how it is used, covering apostrophes, colons, commas, exclamation points, hyphens, parentheses, slashes, and more.

SloMo has a tiring journey on his way to umpire his friends baseball game and falls asleep before he can yell "play ball."

When his friends tease him for being a "powder-puff," Guff sets out to prove he is a hero

Boyds Mills Press publishes a wide range of high-quality fiction and nonfiction picture books, chapter books, novels, and nonfiction

Discusses irregular verbs, their tenses, and how to use them and provides full congugation of the 100 most commonly used verbs.

Repeated practice builds student mastery of essential grammar, usage, and mechanics skills. 150+ fun and engaging practice pages * Flexible use great for homework

Provides educators with lessons, videos, reproducible pages, and whiteboard activities to help elementary school students learn the different parts of speech.

A must-have reference book for every classroom! This unique, game-like homophone book takes a visually imaginative look at the many sound-alike words in English. Readers will pour over each illustration as they guess the humorous "related" image on the next page. Backmatter encourages readers to extend the learning and fun!

Help students become stronger writers with these fun-to-do learning packets on the important topics of capitalization, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, and so much more! Each reproducible packet targets and teaches one type of punctuation--such as commas--in an easy and thorough way to ensure kids REALLY learn the rules. Perfect for homework or meaningful seatwork! For use with Grades 3-6.

Amelia Bedelia entertains Mr. and Mrs. Rogers by showing them her family album and describing what her relatives do.

In humorous, alliterative, rhyming couplets, the present and past tenses of thirty irregular verbs are presented.

"A mini-curriculum with engaging lessons, fun video, interactive whiteboard activities, and reproducible practice pages for teaching the parts of speech."--Container.

A practical guide to grammar and usage, covering such topics as parts of speech, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and idioms.

A practical guide to grammar and usage, covering such topics as parts of speech, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and idioms.

Explains the meaning and origins of over 100 nonsense words that make the English language more colorful including such examples as "flip-flop," "fuzzy-wuzzy," "cancan," and "tutti frutti."