• Age: 5 to 10
• Grade: k to 3

Four friends are excited to play together, but each one has a different idea of what they should do. Period (the serious one) believes they should go to the library. Question Mark (the confused one) wonders whether they can chase butterflies…or was it whether butter flies? Comma (the hungry one) just runs on and on about food. Exclamation Point (the crazy one) wants to go on lots of extreme adventures! That are dangerous! And exciting! With everyone only thinking about themselves, their friendship almost comes to a full stop, until a strange and unexpected newcomer shows them how much more fun life can be when everyone works together...

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STEVE NEWBERRY is a maker of things. As an artist, he exhibited his eclectic mixed media and sculptural artwork in Canada and Japan. As an animator, he founded the website and popular YouTube channel Scratch Garden as a home for fun, educational videos for kids (and people who used to be kids). He lives in Hamilton, Ontario with his wife and two kids. Semicolons, Cupcakes, and Cucumbers is his first book.

"A useful teaching tool, the book explains the meaning of different punctuation marks and provides many examples of their use. The characters and their speech bubbles each have their own color and speak in sentences that contain their own type of punctuation. Their faces convey a wealth of emotion and several well-placed details add elements of discovery to the reading."

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