My sister recently bought my mother (who is a bit of a grammar nut) a beautiful book published some time between 1934 and 1956 titled “Grammar Can Be Fun”.

The book is a short 47 pages, targeted at young children learning how to use English grammar correctly.

The book is full of anthropomorphised pronouns, contractions, abbreviations, suffixes and the like, with short stories about the characters and why you should use [or avoid] them in your writing and conversations.

My favourite character is Ly, a small chinese boy representing the suffix “-ly” often found at the end of adverbs. Ly likes action and movement of any kind.

My sister found the book at a second-hand bookstore. According to the inscription on the inside of the front cover, it was given to Penny and Julian from Pappa and Grandma in June 1956, and it was seemingly passed on to Felicity Wigthwick [I'm guessing a misspelling of Wightwick] some time after that.

The book was written by Munro Leaf and it was published by Ward, Lock and Co Ltd. There’s no publishing date, but according to Wikipedia, it was first published in 1934. The body text is set in Goudy Old Style, the cover in Klassika.