The Elements of Style (1918), by William Strunk, Jr., and E.B. White, is an American English writing style guide. It is the best-known, most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is required reading and usage in U.S. high school and university composition classes. This edition of The Elements of Style details eight elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition, "a few matters of form," and...

Contrasts pairs of items that are either quiet or loud.

Illustrated in a bright, graphic style, Patricelli's board books star an obliging, bald, and very expressive toddler who acts out each pair of opposites with comically dramatic effect.

Uses animal names to introduce rhythmic language and rhyme, as Tanka the elephant and his friend Skunk play drums to keep the beat.

Knocked from his log into a bog several times, Frog foolishly straps himself to the log and encourages Big Pig and Pup the dog to bump the log again.

Confused by the different meanings of words that sound alike, a little girl imagines such unusual sights as "a king who rained" and "the foot prince in the snow."

An illustrated introduction to the letters of the alphabet, the numbers one to ten, basic colors, and opposites.

Photographs and simple text present homonyms, words that sound the same but have different meanings.