Nearly 47 million people in the U.S. speak a language other than English at home, and many of us who only speak English hardly know the difference between when to use whether opposed to if, for exampIe, I wonder whether I should have added a little more poison to his tea. English is Not Easy presents the intricacies of the English language in a whimsically illustrated format that is appealing even to the grammar averse. Author Luci Guierrez, a Barcelona-based illustrator whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, found her English class taught by a professor with a dubious accent to be lacking in substance. So she turned to her love of drawing as a tool to retain what she'd learned in class. She soon found that English may not be simple, but it can be fun. English Is Not Easy has already been successfully published in several countries, and now it's America's turn to have fun with our own language. English Is...
