There's a Frog in My Throat!

440 Animal Sayings A Little Bird Told Me

Author  Pat Street Illustrated by  Loreen Leedy
There's a Frog in My Throat!

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. …

$11.99
March 15, 2004
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