Most Popular Books by Marvin Terban

A practical guide to grammar and usage, covering such topics as parts of speech, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and idioms.

A practical guide to grammar and usage, covering such topics as parts of speech, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and idioms.

An alphabetical listing of common figures of speech, along with their definitions and origins.

An introduction to six common figures of speech -- metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, personification, alliteration, and hyperbole -- with guidelines for their use and numerous illustrative examples.

Introduces and explains more than 100 expressions which mean something different than the separate words in the group. For example: raise the roof, hold your horses, and beat around the bush.

Illustrates and explains over 100 common English idioms, in categories including animals, body parts, and colors.

A collection of progressively harder to guess palindrome riddles.

Explores the plural of 90 irregular nouns, such as mouse and mice, in humorous rhymes and tongue twisters.

Trace the origins of more than 100 eponymous words—words derived from the names of people and places. What food was first cooked up in Hamburg, Germany? Hamburgers What country is named after the Italian sailor Amerigo Vespucci? America What do you call people and places whose names become words? Eponyms! Meet the people and places behind more than 100 eponymous words and read the fascinating stories of why words were created for them. What would be the meaning of a word named after you?

An abundant cache of ideas for using words and wordplay to create engaging riddles and jokes.

This collection of original riddles is unlike any other because the main words in each answer sound exactly alike, but have different meanings. Zany illustrations add to the fun and provide clues to the solutions. And the newly designed full-color cover makes the package even more appealing. So dig in--and see why you should play with your words (not with your food)!

Thirty popular expressions such as "straight from the horse''s mouth" and "white elephant" are amusingly explained and illustrated.

A collection of over seventy riddles using homographs, words that are spelled the same but differ in meaning and pronunciation.

Poochie meets Hover Hound and rescues several of her friends in his hot air balloon.

SloMo has a tiring journey on his way to umpire his friends baseball game and falls asleep before he can yell "play ball."

When his friends tease him for being a "powder-puff," Guff sets out to prove he is a hero

Boyds Mills Press publishes a wide range of high-quality fiction and nonfiction picture books, chapter books, novels, and nonfiction

Amelia Bedelia entertains Mr. and Mrs. Rogers by showing them her family album and describing what her relatives do.