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

There's a Frog in My Throat: 440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me | Loreen Leedy, Pat Street | My preschooler loves this book

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	There's a Frog in My Throat: 440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me Loreen Leedy, Pat Street Holiday House, 2003 - 48 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me. An amusing and informative collection of animal sayings.

Super

This is great book for exposing children to idioms. I first present some of the expressions to my students and have them try to explain them. Afterward, they have fun going back and finding the actual meaning. We usually do this around the time that we read Amelia Bedelia. The children illustrate an expression of their own choosing and the rest of us try to guess what the expression is. There are many extension activities to do along with this fun book. It is a great way to immerse chioldren inour language and get them excited about it. Lots of fun!

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My preschooler loves this book

We have spent countless hours reading this book and discussing all the different idioms. She remembers the phrases from the pictures (she doesn't read yet) and sometimes uses them correctly in conversation later. It's fun and it's educational. What more could you want?

Great Intro to Idioms

We first borrowed this book from the library and my 6-yr-old absolutely loves it! Great pictures and creative visuals make the idioms fun to read (and learn!). I know it'll come in handy for future references and book reports, so we're now buying it for keeps!

nice ESL teaching tool

This is a good way to introduce common idioms to young ESL students. Many of the sayings in here we don't use any more, but still, they are part of our culture, so it's not a waste of time to go through them. The pictures are really lively and fun.

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Audience would determin best fit

My son asked for this book after seeing it at school. I think it must have been more entertaining in the hands of the librarian than in mine. He seemed to really really want it and because he was an advanced reader we try to follow-up with anything he deems challenging. But, the larger text meant to be very creative and artistic can be hard to read and the smaller text is just too small. Switching between text makes it difficult for young readers and perhaps "older" readings who are trying to read and "show the pictures".

BUT, the audience of this book may NEVER have been a young 5 1/2 year old reader (reading 1st grade level books) - and for that you can't fault a very unique, educational even for adults, and humorously illustrated book.

I think if I were a pre-school or Elem. teacher, it'd be an awesome book to have around - especially for the kids who are getting board with A,B,Cs and want to look at cool illustrations.

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