[桥梁书] 介绍一位作家 Marvin Terban 和他的书籍

先引用一段Wiki 的介绍
Marvin Terban is an American author. Called a "master ofchildren's wordplay" by ALA Booklist and "Mr. English for Kids" by theBook-of-the-Month Club, he has written over 30 books for children, mostof them about the English language. He is "Dr. Grammar" onScholastic.com.

他的书籍都是和英语词汇，语法相关，不是单纯的介绍词汇的词汇书籍，而是词汇游戏，读起来非常的有趣。他出的书籍有

I Think I Thought: And Other Tricky Verbs (1984)

Too Hot to Hoot: Funny Palindrome Riddles (1985)

Your Foot's on My Feet: And Other Tricky Nouns (1986)

Guppies in Tuxedos: Funny Eponyms (1988)

Dove Dove: Funny Homograph Riddles (1988)

Superdupers: Really Funny Real Words (1989)

Punching the Clock: Funny Action Idioms (1990)

Hey, Hay!: A Wagonful of Funny Homonym Riddles (1991)

Funny You Should Ask: How to Make up Jokes and Riddles with Wordplay (1992)

It Figures: Fun Figures of Speech (1993)

Checking Your Grammar (1993)

Time to Rhyme (1994)

Scholastic Writer's Desk Reference (2001)

Punctuation Power: Punctuation and How to Use It (2002)

Kids' Guide to the English Language (2002)

Building Your Vocabulary (2003)

Verbs! Verbs! Verbs! (2003)

Scholastic Dictionary Of Idioms (2006)

Scholastic Dictionary Of Spelling (2006)

Ready! Set! Research! Your Fast And Fun Guide To Writing Research Papers That Rock (2007)

The Ultimate Spelling & Vocabulary Reference (2007)

In a Pickle: And Other Funny Idioms (2007)

Mad as a Wet Hen!: And Other Funny Idioms (2007)

Eight Ate: A Feast of Homonym Riddles (2007)

The Ultimate Homework Book (2008)

Pocket Guide to Grammar (2010)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Terban

他的很多书籍都是由scholastic 出版发行。他的书兼具知识性和趣味性，是学英语（2年级以上）的学生很好的工具书和参考书。

scholastic 网站对他的介绍是：

Marvin Terban, called "the master of word play" and "Mr. English forKids," is Dr. Grammar on Scholastic.com and the author of over 33 booksfor children. He has visited hundreds of schools across the UnitedStates, South America, Europe, Israel and Japan. His lively andhumorous Meet the Author slide show presentation, Who Says EnglishCan't Be Fun?, relates directly to the language arts curriculum and issuitable for large assemblies. It focuses on grammar, idioms, homonyms,homographs, palindromes, eponyms, irregular verbs and nouns, funvocabulary, figures of speech, punctuation, spelling, jokes, andriddles—the puzzling idiosyncrasies of the English language. Mr. Terbanalso presents an additional audience participation program with visualsand hands-on material suitable for smaller groups in grades 4-6 calledHow a Book Is Born. This presentation focuses on all the steps in thewriting process: how an author thinks of ideas, researches them, writesthe manuscript, rewrites it, works with an editor, and gets a bookpublished. Mr. Terban also speaks to faculty, in-service, and parentgroups.

NOTE: If you want to contact Mr. Terban yourself, you may do so at the following address:

Marvin Terban
Email: mterban@verizon.net

6028 查看 23 收藏帖子 (15)

说说我的看法高级模式