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There's a Frog in My Throat!: 440 Animal Sayings A Little Bird Told Me

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Overview

Have you heard the buzz?

Kids book experts Pat Street and Loreen Leedy worked like dogs (that is, they worked very hard) to pull a rabbit out of a hat (do something amazing) and create this hilarious, comprehensive introduction to similes, metaphors, and idioms.

Pairing hilariously literal illustrations—like a duck in scrubs for a quack, or a hen's chicken scratch handwriting—with simple explanations of the expressions, There's a Frog In My Throat! introduces more than four hundred common sayings, and puts them into easy-to-understand context. Each page is packed with cartoonish illustrations and intriguing expressions.

Readers will be drawn like a moth to a flame to this fascinating book, equal parts reference and entertainment. Perfect for readers starting to study figurative language and use it in their own writings, or for English language learners of all ages, this picture book is the bee's knees—it's terrific!

For more expressive, idiomatic sayings, check out Pat Street's You're Pulling My Leg!, too—quick as a bunny!

An ALA Notable Book
A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823418190
Publisher:	Holiday House
Publication date:	03/15/2004
Series:	ALA Notable Book Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	48
Sales rank:	262,846
Product dimensions:	9.03(w) x 10.85(h) x 0.15(d)
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Loreen Leedy's nonfiction books are staples in classrooms across the country and have been widely recognized with awards and great reviews. Ms. Leedy lives in Florida. Learn more on her website at www.loreenleedy.com.

Pat Street has written and edited Language Arts educational materials for many years. She also collects and writes about sayings, and has more than a million in her database! Her previous sayings book, There's a Frog in My Throat! 440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me, was a joint project with Loreen Leedy. In a starred Booklist review, it was called "more fun than a barrel of monkeys!" Pat lives in Orlando, Florida, with her husband, who is also her best friend, and their two entertaining cats.

	Around the House: dogs, cats, and other pets	4
	On the Farm: domestic animals	14
	In the Wild: animals from field, forest, jungle, and desert	26
	On the Wing: birds and flying insects	32
	Down by the Ground: worms, bugs, and other creeping creatures	38
	Under the Waves: fish and other aquatic animals	42
	Index	46

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Editorial Reviews

*"It's more fun than a barrel of monkeys! . . . a volume to crow about!"—Booklist, Starred Review

"a very enlightening collection of common expressions, including similes, metaphors, idioms and proverbs, amusingly illustrated"—The New York Times Book Review

"It will provide substantial browsing pleasure to both animal lovers and children curious about language. The cat's pajamas!"—Kirkus Reviews

"Like a moth to flame, readers will be drawn to this entertaining book. . . . This title is perfect for anyone who wonders about the meaning of everyday expressions, and it makes a good language reference tool."—School Library Journal

"a rare and useful bird."—Horn Book Magazine

"Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed readers should have a whale of a time perusing these diverting, creatively cluttered pages."—Publishers Weekly

An ALA Notable Book
A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year

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PW called this "a hearty roundup of animal-related idioms, similes, metaphors and proverbs, organized by habit. Readers should have a whale of a time perusing these diverting, creatively cluttered pages." Ages 6-10. (Mar.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

Gr 2-6-Like a moth to a flame, readers will be drawn to this entertaining book. The sayings are loosely grouped by types of animals-domestic, barnyard, winged, etc.-and each adage is accompanied by a short definition. For example, "It's raining cats and dogs. It's raining hard." Numerous sayings are scattered over each spread and illustrated with small, full-color pictures in a variety of styles. While this format might seem overwhelming at first glance, children will pore over the pages. The collaboration of text and art makes the volume lively and humorous. The index is arranged by animal rather than by adage. This title is perfect for anyone who wonders about the meaning of everyday expressions, and it makes a good language reference tool. Readers might come to this book for a specific saying, but will find themselves captivated by the engaging text and great illustrations.-Susan Marie Pitard, formerly at Weezie Library for Children, Nantucket Atheneum, MA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

School Library Journal

As the subtitle indicates, this is a compendium of familiar and not-so-familiar sayings that have to do with animals, from "we’re off like a herd of turtles" to "the tail end." The design is purposely busy, packing all 440 sayings into 48 meager pages by allowing them to spill onto the title page, index, and colophon, although most are confined to the body of the book and organized thematically, from "Around the House" to "Under the Waves." The sayings are illustrated by bright vignettes that differ in style to provide both variety and to suit the saying, and frequently interact. So, "as crazy as a cuckoo" is illustrated by a wacky-looking bird popping out of a classically Swiss clock; this contrasts with "Watch it like a hawk," which features a proud raptor with gaze fixed, X-ray vision-like, on a "nest egg" filled with C-notes. Each saying is glossed--"Don’t cast your pearls before swine" becomes "Don’t waste something good on people who can’t appreciate it"--and these paraphrases very rarely rely themselves on idiomatic expressions, making them clear and easy to understand. An authors’ note at the beginning explains the different types of sayings, from simile and metaphor to idiom and proverb. The serious philologist might wish for origins to the expressions contained herein, but there’s only so much this perky little volume can do; as it is, it will provide substantial browsing pleasure to both animal lovers and children curious about language. The cat’s pajamas! (Nonfiction. 6-10)

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