Review: More fine educational exercises for children
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 1, 2013
Drorit Metuki  continues her practice education books about the use of idioms with the very fine assistance once again from illustrator  Malgorzata Godziuk. For this magnification of her concepts Metuki introduces Robbie the Robot from the planet Xergota who is sent on a mission to planet Earth. For this mission Robbie must be transformed into the body of a human and Robbie must carefully learn the names and functions of each body part, and then he is off to Earth.Not only is Robbie (as now a normal appearing boy) confused with the games and the cars he sees, but his even more confused with the language he hears - phrases such as `I lost my head', `my foot in my mouth', `he broke my heart' and `can I give you a hand'.  Robbie's confusion with these phrases is explained by a young girl named Sandy who defines the concept of idioms (`a phrase is a combination of words that have a figurative meaning,). Sandy adds the phrases `over my dead body' and `a frog in your throat' and Robbie catches on. He returns to Xergota wiser and able to think of his own idioms: `That trip was a piece of cake!'Taking a lesson such as this and placing it in the fun atmosphere of Robot and space travel just adds to the pleasure of discovering new ideas in language education. It is a wise choice!  Grady Harp, July 13