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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2011
Gr 4–7—Edwards begins this picture book with a definition of "idiom," and English teachers will thrill to find a book that deals with this elusive idea. The expectation will be that the pictures will get to the true meaning of the expressions, but readers will be surprised. In fact, Edwards's illustrati...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2010
In this entertaining book, Edwards presents a gallery of elaborate animal paintings with sly one-sentence captions. Each picture offer...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on October 1, 2010
Each of Wallace Edwards’s twenty-six tableaux depicts a different idiom, while an accompanying sentence uses the expression in a way that is simultaneously literal and figurative. For example, in one sc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
