an outbreak in the traits of writing epidemic i would have liked it more if the author had done far more to play with absent punctuation but the narration kept its punctuation and it never really seemed to disappear there was only one passage with punctuation gone and then one passage the kids wrote where it was all wrong how did they do it wrong if it was missing anyway oh yeah they stole some from the teacher next door so i think the author really missed a good chance for a fun book with a lot of double entendres louis sachar or norton juster could have pulled it offthe illustrations were whimsical and matched the joke of the book