You can bet your bottom dollar this funny story is the cream of the cropâand the best thing since sliced bread! Award-winning artist Serge Bloch will have kids laughing their heads off at this childâs-eye look at idiomatic expressions like âants in your pants,â âhomework is for the birds,â and âcat got your tongue?â These commonly used sayings make sense in the adult world, but just imagine what a child pictures when she hears itâs âraining cats and dogs!â With witty and wonderful images that mix whimsical line drawings with photographs of inanimate objects, Bloch gives us a unique and sympathetic perspective on a boyâs first day of school where colorful butterflies flutter in our heroâs stomach and a cloud rains on him when heâs âunder the weather.â Even the âbig cheeseâ Principal has a body cut out of a block of Swiss.
Butterflies in My Stomach and Other School Hazards - Serge Bloch
You can bet your bottom dollar this funny story is the cream of the cropâand the best thing since sliced bread! Award-winning artist Serge Bloch will have kids laughing their heads off at this childâs-eye look at idiomatic expressions like âants in your pants,â âhomework is for the birds,â and âcat got your tongue?â These commonly used sayings make sense in the adult world, but just imagine what a child pictures when she hears itâs âraining cats and dogs!â With witty and wonderful images that mix whimsical line drawings with photographs of inanimate objects, Bloch gives us a unique and sympathetic perspective on a boyâs first day of school where colorful butterflies flutter in our heroâs stomach and a cloud rains on him when heâs âunder the weather.â Even the âbig cheeseâ Principal has a body cut out of a block of Swiss.