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Edwards, Wallace

Monkey Business

32 pp. | Kids Can | September, 2004 | Trade ISBN 1-55337-462-2 $16.95
(4) K-3 Well-known idioms are given literal translation for humorous effect in a volume of painterly animal portraits. A bulldog eating hotdogs represents a "dog eat dog world," while the phrase "put his best foot forward" is illustrated by an octopus dancing. Kids may not know many of the phrases parodied, but the book will get them thinking about the anomalies of colloquial language.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

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