I am in LOVE with this book for so many reasons. It's colorful and appealing and would encourage elementary kids to stretch their language skills while keeping them entertained. As if that wasn't enough, I would love to have this in a middle school and high school classroom as an amusing intro lesson or review of dangling participles to help improve their writing. In both cases, the children and adults who are reading it would be enthralled and smiling. How many books can be used so diversely? What a great idea! I highly recommend this book be added to every school library!

This was so cute I absolutely loved it. It was funny and had a great overall theme for children. I would highly recommend this and I will definitely be purchasing this for Christmas gifts!

Don't Dangle Your Participle is a fun and humorously illustrated explanation of the use of the present participle and the importance of ensuring that they modify the correct noun in a sentence.
Eg. "While riding his skateboard in the park, a deer almost ran into Lester."
vs.
"While riding his skateboard in the park, Lester was almost hit by a deer."

The book is aimed at younger readers, and I must say that it is gratifying to see that grammar is being taught in primary (elementary) schools again, after enduring several decades of unpopularity.
I found Vanita Oelschlager's explanatory text and clear and well-explored using the several examples given. Mike DeSantis's illustrations were appropriately humorous, illustrating the hilarious situations that can result if participles are left to dangle. I believe this is a book that youngsters would find both amusing and educational when learning parts of speech.
I also particularly liked the appendix, in which DeSantis details the process he goes through in creating his watercolour illustrations.
I would recommend Don't Dangle Your Participle as a valuable teaching resource for primary (elementary) school teachers.
My thanks to the author Vanita Oelschlager, illustrator Mike DeSantis, publisher Vanita Books and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this title.

The author uses words and pictures to show children what a dangling participle is. Young readers can be shown an incorrect sentence that has in it a dangling participle it is then used to teach them how to make the sentence read correctly. It is done in a clever and humorous way. The dangling participle loses its way and the children learns how to help it find its way back to the correct spot in the sentence. There are some comical examples of sentences with funny illustrations that the children really enjoyed looking at and spotting what was wrong,
This was a fun book to help children to properly word sentences with participles to avoid confusion. The illustrations were adorable and fun.. some of the proper sentences could have been worded better as they seemed a bit forced. All in all a great book for the classroom.

Vanita Oelshlager's Don't Dangle Your Participle is a cute presentation on dangling participles and a great way to introduce the topic or review with students. However, the book would have been a stronger resource if fewer of the sentences had been in passive voice.

love this book! my students really enjoyed it! hope to find more like it! can't recommend it enough!

I wish I had such a nice book for my learning when I was a kid. This book explains one important grammar topic with help of multiple examples and pictorial aids. Recommended book for learning.

Don't Dangle Your Participle was a fun way to teach grammar to children. I'll be using this with my students. The explanation of the rules at the beginning was easy to follow and then the pictures and text with the examples were delightful. Humorous whilst getting the point across. The perfect book for a sometimes confusing topic. Highly recommend.

This book is definitely not what I expected it to be. The title, at least to my dirty mind, I expected to be funny and more geared towards adults in all honesty. However, my dirty mind aside, this book is really great. It teaches cleverly a relatively difficult subject about English that could very easily create a bridge between children's knowledge and confusion. I would recommend this for somebody who struggles with nouns and verbs and participles. 😂 Very well done.

Thank you #netgalley

Special thanks to NetGalley for providing a digital copy in exchange for an honest review

This is probably my favorite of Vanita's books that I've read. I really enjoy children books that are silly, have great art, an are educational. This was hits all three points pretty perfectly. I feel like I learned something even as a 24 year old adult. This would be a fun one to read during story time at the library

Kids are going to love this book and not even realize they are learning about participles. I love when education is illustrated in a fun way so kids can see it doesn’t all have to be boring, quiet school.

As a kid, I used to look up the Dangling Participle section in my school grammar book and read it like a joke book. Now, as a mother and an English teacher, I still find them hilarious! My son (11) and I read this book together and got a big kick out of it. The author sets things up well in the first pages with a clear explanation of what a participle is and how it might end up dangling. The illustrator does a beautiful job showing the contrast in meaning between a properly written sentence and one with a dangling participle. The last page of the book also has information on how the illustrations were made. My only wish is that there had been room in the book for about a hundred more funny examples.

The explanations in this book would be great for younger kids, but could also be useful for reviewing participles with older students. The examples with illustrations were a fun and memorable way to explain the correct use of participles. However, there were too many instances where the "correct" version used passive voice which, is very awkward and also something that children and writers of all ages must learn to avoid.

It’s always tricky to try to teach participles to young elementary students. However, I think I have found the right book to do so! The author lays out a fairly clear definition of what a participle is, and then provides an example of incorrect usage in a sentence (accompanied with an illustration), followed by a correct sentence (again, accompanied with an illustration). This will be my new “go to” book when I reach this point of the curriculum.

This book explains grammar to kids in a funny and engaging way. It's great for elementary-aged students and will make it easy to remember thanks to the way the book is laid out.
Many thanks to Vanita Books and NetGalley for the advance copy.

The illustrations in this book do a fantastic job of showing the difference of meanings in the sentences depending on how they are written. I’d enjoy using this in my classroom for my students to understand participles.

Clearly lays out what a participle is and how a dangling participle can lead to confusion and unclear communication. And the examples all have cute drawings and are hilarious! That said, some of the well formed sentences are written in the passive voice, which is also a grammar no no!

I had a hard time reading this book to my son. I think he is a little too young for it, but my brain also struggles with it 😂

Don't Dangle Your Participle
by Vanita Oelschlager
Back of the Book: “Words and pictures show children what a dangling participle is all about. Young readers are shown an incorrect sentence that has in it a dangling participle. They are then taught how to make the sentence read correctly. It is done in a cute and humorous way. The dangling participle loses its way and the children learns how to help it find its way back to the correct spot in the sentence. This is followed by some comical examples of sentences with dangling participles and their funny illustrations, followed by an illustration of the corrected sentence. Young readers will have fun recognizing this problem in sentence construction and learning how to fix it.”
Impressions: Certainly, the title is intriguing enough to pick up this book. I think this was a fun and silly way to learn more about grammar.
Liked: The illustrations were fun and brought the text to life.
Disliked: Grammar is still not my thing. There are some other familiar parts of speech that it would have been nice if the participles were compared to in order to clarify.
Learned: I learned what a participle is.

This book was a cute way to teach a grammar concept with humorous illustrations. It was a little repetitive, but the drawings were really funny and kept my kids' attention. What a unique idea to teach grammar! I received a free copy of this book from netgalley and the publisher in exchange for my honest review.