Why the Banana Split — Rick Walton

Teachers and parents know that teaching is more effective when kids are having fun. Rick Walton's Language Adventures Series combines entertainment and education with eight newly revised picture books that cleverly teach grammar and usage. Kids will love the silly stories, funny illustrations, and witty wordplay. Teachers and parents will love the new features: definitions at the beginning of the book and activities at the end that allow kids to apply what they've learned.

Titles in the series include

• Around the House, the Fox Chased the Mouse: Adventures in Prepositions

• Bullfrog Pops: Adventures in Verbs and Objects

• Herd of Cows, Flock of Sheep: Adventures in Collective Nouns

• Just Me and 6,000 Rats: Adventures in Conjunctions

• Once There Was a Bull . . . (Frog): Adventures in Compound Words

• Pig Pigger Piggest: Adventures in Comparing

• Suddenly Alligator: Adventures in Adverbs

• Why the Banana Split: Adventures in Idioms

Rick Walton is the author of more than sixty children's books, including this best-selling language arts series. His books have been featured on the IRA Children's Choice list, Reading Rainbow, and CBS This Morning.

More than 150,000 copies sold!

So why did the banana split? Well, for the same reason that the jackhammers hit the road, the lettuce headed out, and the jump ropes skipped town. It was even enough to make the baseball players strike out. Here's a hint: it's bigger than a breadbox. And named Rex. With Jimmy Holder's sly illustrations bringing every pun to life, Rick Walton's verbal deftness will leave readers splitting too-their sides.