The subject matter, despite its potential to be disgusting, is treated as funny but commonplace. Strands of hair in a comb arouse thoughts of premature baldness ""a chunk of something gray and wet,"" fallen from a nostril, is identified as ""a little piece of brain."" (Attempting to find answers, the young hypochondriac pores over a stack of books on gray matter, including a ""Book of Marbles"" for those losing theirs.) The boy's parents insist that nose goo and flaky skin are normal, but their solemn reassurance is met with a gross punch line: ""Then tell me, what's this yellow stuff I got out of my ear?"" Whimsical cartoons, in warm watercolor hues and texturized with squiggles of colored pencil that resemble the boy's decreasing hairs, show the narrator in the foreground and his worst fantasies in the background. It was/ My stuffing coming out!"" Each discovery increases the narrator's anxiety. ""I stared at it, amazed, and wondered,/ What's this all about?/ But then I understood. We say on a regular basis and don't give much though to really are.In this humorously askew look at the body, belly-button lint leads a five-year-old boy to believe he's falling apart.
Will get a chuckle as the realize how odd many of the idioms Clearly, the common idiom "It costĪn arm and a leg" is what is being depicted in this spread. The illustrations and idioms inside these books are fantastic! Ted Arnold is a master children's book illustrator! Below is a sample spread from inside Even More Parts. On common back-to-school fears, this could be aįun book to read in the upper grades during the first week of school. Jump into the unit and learn even more about funny idioms! And, since Even More Your students will be engaged and entertained, and ready to You are teaching about idioms, the funny literal translation of idioms You may want to discuss what idioms are before reading the book. In our experience, children get a big kickįrightening, as most children do understand the joke, but just in case,
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