Review: Learning idioms is a piece of cake
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2013
I've often wondered how foreigners ever learn the English language, with all of the irregularities in spelling and pronunciation. And then there are idioms, those combinations of words that have a figurative meaning very different from their literal meaning. In "Danny and the Giant Ear," young Danny comes home from school one day wanting to tell his mom what he learned in class, and is greeted with her remark, "I'm all ears," reminding Danny of a particularly scary fairy tale. This leads to his mom giving him a quick lesson in idioms.I'm too old to remember if I was taught about idioms in school, or if I just picked them up as I grew older. But I read that there are at least 25,000 idioms in the English language, so I imagine that most of the idioms we use are learned on our own as we go through life.Author Drorit Metuki has written an entertaining story about a topic that I've never seen mentioned in a children's book before. With a simple vocabulary and colorful illustrations, it's the right length for bedtime reading (or any time) for youngsters in the early grades.