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Leedy, Loreen , Street, Pat

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

48 pp. | Holiday | March, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-8234-1774-3 $$16.95

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Loreen Leedy. This lively language arts lesson loosely organizes chosen idioms by such topics as "Around the House" and "On the Wing." Leedy and Street pack each double-page spread with twenty-odd turns of phrase, defining each briefly and furthering the definitions with an illustrative array of portraits, scenes, and mini-dramas that also provide textual and graphic cohesion. An index of the animals metaphor-ized is appended.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2003