Monkey Business: Fun with Idioms (Milet Wordwise series) - Softcover

Hambleton, Laura; Turhan, Sedat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840594993 ISBN 13: 9781840594997

Publisher: Milet Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

A creative and playful approach to idioms invites children to have fun with phrases that can be tricky to understand. Clever, bold illustrations play with the idea that idioms have the power to invoke hilarious images when pictured literally, showing kids examples of what commonly used phrases like monkey business really might look like. Language lessons come across subtly, as over-the-top representations of well-known expressions burst with imagination and inspiration.

About this title

About the Author

Laura Hambleton is the author and illustrator of I'm Afraid Too!, Welcome to the Lizard Lounge, Chameleon Swims, and Chameleon Races, the coauthor of Telling Tails and Strawberry Bullfrog, and the illustrator of Telling Tails, How Bees Be, English with Abby and Zak, French with Abby and Zak, and Ece ve Efe ile Türkçe. Sedat Turhan is the creator of the Milet Picture Dictionary, Milet Mini Picture Dictionary, and the Milet Flashwords series and is the founding director of Milet. He lives in Chicago. Hervé Tullet is the author and illustrator of numerous children's books, including Alphabet Poem, Blue & Square, The Five Senses, Yellow & Round, Night and Day, and Pink Lemon.

From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 2–With offbeat collages and paintings coupled with oversize fonts and simple layouts, these offerings introduce parts of speech. The images in the first title are somewhat more abstract than those in the two other books. For example, the illustration for We don't have a plan. We'll play it by ear depicts a car traversing a road shaped like a face. The clearer (though smaller) pictures in Catherine Snodgrass's Super Silly Sayings That Are over Your Head (Starfish, 2004) may make that title a preferred alternative to this one. Bullfrog inquires whether a watchdog is a a dog with a watch and shows a hound wearing a clock around his neck. In Tails, the phrase I'm washing my hare is coupled with an illustration of a smiling child cleansing a puzzled-looking rabbit in a bathtub. The humor here is similar to that in Fred Gwynne's A Little Pigeon Toad (S & S, 1988), but the sentence choices and artwork have more appeal for young children. Each book closes with a succinct definition of the part of speech under examination and clearly explains the examples in the previous pages. Solid additions.–Jayne Damron, Farmington Community Library, MI
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Edition details

• Publisher: Milet Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1840594993
• ISBN 13: 9781840594997
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 28
• Illustrator: Tullet Hervé