Now in a handsome, hilariously illustrated new edition: The stickler-tickling punctuation polemic that has sold more than 1.6 million copies in North America is even more fun with the whimsical art of acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist Pat Byrnes.

The runaway bestseller that has everyone minding their p’s and q’s (and their commas and semicolons), Eats, Shoots & Leaves has delighted audiences around the world and elevated Lynne Truss to superstickler status among those in the know. Language lovers everywhere will cheer the arrival of this new edition, beautifully packaged in a larger format with a red cloth-over-board cover and containing more than fifty vivid, full-color drawings. Created by renowned cartoonist Pat Byrnes, each illustration brings to life a different punctuation pitfall in a wickedly playful style that matches Truss’s trademark wit. Eats, Shoots & Leave Illustrated Edition is also accompanied by a colorful foreword by wordsmith extraordinaire Frank McCourt.

Published just in time for holiday gift-giving, Eats Shoots & Leaves Illustrated Edition is sure to be at the top of wish lists coast to coast.

Lynne Truss is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves, for which she won Britain’s Book of the Year Award; Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today; The Lynne Truss Treasury; and three novels. A regular host on BBC4, she is a veteran journalist.

Pat Byrnes has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker since 1998, and his cartoons have appeared in numerous other national publications. He is the author of What Would Satan Do?

Imprint: Gotham
Distributor: Penguin Group USA, Inc
Publication Date: 10-16-2008
Measurements: 9.68in X 6.84in X 0.71in X 1.31lb