Eats, Shoots & Leaves vs Just So Stories: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Eats, Shoots & Leaves Eats, Shoots & Leaves Lynne Truss · 2003 ★★★★☆ 3.8 209 pages · ≈ 3 h 52 m · Light

Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens. We all had the…

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Cover of Just So Stories Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling · 1922 ★★★★☆ 4.0 113 pages · ≈ 2 h 06 m · Moderate

Seven tales that explain special things about animals, such as how the whale got his tiny throat, the camel his hump and the leopard his spots.

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The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

Eats, Shoots & LeavesJust So Stories
Goodreads — 4.0 (50016)
Hardcover 3.8 (194) —
Apple Books 4.0 (78) 4.0 (83)

Reception

Eats, Shoots & LeavesJust So Stories
Ratings 194 50016
Editions 13 245
Film adaptations — 1
Want to read — 20461
Reading it now — 2199
Written reviews — 1861
Wikipedia attention 2938 4018
Pages 209 113

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