The Baytown Sun
by Joan Martin

July 10, 2011

Subtitled a book of food idioms and silly pictures, this book is a great tool for both classroom and home.

The couch potato is actually planted in the ground and can't get up.

The reader has a chance to explain words that really do not mean what they say. Then he can turn the book upside down and read the explanation.

When the dentist pulls the sweet tooth covered with candy, the reader will wish to be in the picture to satisfy his sweet tooth.

Double-page pictures draw the reader in and will tickle his funny bone (another idiom) with a can of sardines and the black spider catching more flies with honey than with vinegar.

The pie in the sky lets the moon take a vacation.

Robin Hegan's brilliant illustrations will help the reader to "read between the lines" and figure out the hidden meanings.