If You Were a Conjunction

Description

If you were a conjunction, you would join other words or groups of words together. You could be spicy AND tasty OR sweet AND sour. What else could you be if you were a conjunction?

Nancy Loewen writes fiction and nonfiction for children and young adults. Recent awards include: 2012 Minnesota Book Awards finalist (The LAST Day of Kindergarten); 2011 Bank Street's Best Children's Books of the Year (Share a Scare: Writing Your Own Scary Story); 2011 Book of Note, Tri-State Young Adult Review Committee (Stubborn as a Mule and Other Silly Similes); and 2010 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers (Writer's Toolbox Series). She's also received awards from The American Library Association, the New York Public Library, the Independent Book Publishers Association, and the Society of School Librarians International. Nancy holds an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University, St. Paul. She lives in the Twin Cities with her husband and two teenage children.

This series uses vibrantly colored illustrations and whimsical layouts to offer children an accessible introduction to grammar fundamentals. Michael Dahl's If You Were an Adjective (2006) combines simple phrases with striking, highly textured pictures of animals--from howler monkeys to Arctic foxes--to demonstrate the use of adjectives. Other titles in the series include Dahl's If You Were a Noun (2006), Nancy Loewen's If You Were a Conjunction (2006), and Trisha Speed Shaskan's If You Were Onomatopoeia (2008).-- "Book Links"