Today is National Grammar Day! Do you know your nouns from your pronouns? Your conjunctions from your prepositions? Well, there’s no better way to learn than with these fun books from the Grammaropolis series from our friends at Six Foot Press.
Coert Voorhees’ Grammaropolis series is a perfect, story-based approach for teaching kids ages 6-11 the building blocks of language.
If you’d like to purchase any of these books, we’d highly recommend seeking out your local independent bookstore. Your business helps ensure the survival of these vital cultural institutions during this difficult time.
Jake the Adjective by Coert Voorhees (Six Foot Press)
Jake the Adjective is your guide to all that is wonderful, interesting, and lovely about adjectives. It’s book three of the Meet the Parts of Speech series, in which the eight parts of speech are personified based on the roles they play in the sentence.
When Jake’s nemesis pulls a prank and turns Grammaropolis into a grey, misshapen, tasteless town, Jake is forced to run around restoring everything—the colors, shapes, sizes, tastes, and more—to the way it was all meant to be. Clear and informative back matter includes textbook-style definitions and examples of adjectives modifying nouns and pronouns along with comparative and superlative adjectives.
Nelson the Noun by Coert Voorhees (Six Foot Press)
Nelson the Noun is the resident noun expert in Grammaropolis. Visit the Noun Office and learn from him! It’s book one of the Meet the Parts of Speech series, in which the eight parts of speech are personified based on the roles they play in the sentence.
Nelson takes a break from his stressful day job, leaving the Noun Office in the hands of Roger the pronoun. After discovering that vacation isn’t what he’d hoped it would be, Nelson returns just in time to fix the confusion Roger has caused in his absence. Clear and informative back matter includes textbook-style definitions and usage examples of common and proper nouns, concrete and abstract nouns, collective nouns, and compound nouns.
Roger the Pronoun by Coert Voorhees (Six Foot Press)
Roger the Pronoun wants to do the noun’s job even though he knows that he’ll always be just a pronoun. It’s book five of the Meet the Parts of Speech series, in which the eight parts of speech are personified based on the roles they play in the sentence.
Feeling that he’s destined for more than just renaming nouns, Roger opens up his own store next to Nelson’s Nouns. But when Nelson goes missing, Roger realizes that for life to mean anything at all, every pronoun has to have an antecedent. Clear and informative back matter includes textbook-style definitions and usage examples of subject and object pronouns, reflexive and intensive pronouns, and indefinite pronouns.
Li’l Pete the Preposition by Coert Voorhees (Six Foot Press)
Li’l Pete the Preposition will lead you down the path toward preposition mastery. It’s book seven of the Meet the Parts of Speech series, in which the eight parts of speech are personified based on the roles they play in the sentence.
When launching his model rocket in the park, Li’l Pete gets excited and forgets to add objects to his prepositional phrases. Without objects, the prepositions become adverbs, and chaos ensues as the rockets fly up, by, and around with no direction at all. Clear and informative back matter includes textbook-style definitions and examples of prepositions, compound prepositions, and prepositional phrases.
Connie the Conjunction by Coert Voorhees (Six Foot Press)
Join Connie the Conjunction for a conjunction lesson you’ll love and remember. It’s book six of the Meet the Parts of Speech series, in which the eight parts of speech are personified based on the roles they play in the sentence.
Nobody in all of Grammaropolis has more style than Connie; she simply knows how to put things together. After a bump on the head makes her give bad advice, she uses all the conjunctions at her disposal to set everything right again. Clear and informative back matter includes textbook-style definitions and examples for coordinating conjunctions, correlative conjunctions, and subordinating conjunctions.
Izzy the Interjection by Coert Voorhees (Six Foot Press)
Izzy the Interjection makes learning about interjections fun. Yay! It’s book eight of the Meet the Parts of Speech series, in which the eight parts of speech are personified based on the roles they play in the sentence.
No matter whether the emotion is strong or mild, positive, negative, or somewhere in between, Izzy lives to express it. Loneliness can be a problem sometimes because she’s not grammatically connected to the other words in the sentence, but when the time comes, she leaps at the chance to express her strongest emotion yet. Clear and informative back matter includes textbook-style definitions and examples of how interjections express mild and strong emotion.