Birds of a Feather is such a fun book to introduce children to idioms! Though as adults we may use them with children without even thinking that they are taking what we say literally! This book does a wonderful job with awesome illustrations and explanations of each idiom! Children will learn what it really mean to have Butterflies in your Tummy and Ants in your Pants!!!

This was such a fun collection of beautiful illustrations to children understand the meaning behind a handful of common idioms such as "Ants in your pants", "Bull in a china shop", and "Raining cats and dogs". I can imagine that this book would be a popular classroom or daycare read. I found each and every page to be delightfully funny, and i will certainly be recommending it.

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I got this one to read with my child and he loved it!! Great story and love the cover!!

This colorful book uses entertaining illustrations to teach the meaning behind idioms such as "raining cats and dogs", "no spring chicken", "butterflies in your stomach", and "wild goose chase". I enjoyed this book and believe it would be most popular among children ages 5-8.

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Beautiful illustrations, adorable book. The little blurbs about the origin of each idiom helped turn the book into a language arts lesson.

Good:

Simple and colorful illustrations of common idioms. I liked the imagery for, "Look what the cat dragged in." and a "A wild goose chase."

Explanation page at the end about what an idiom is.

You have to flip the book to read the explanation and example sentence that goes with the idiom.



Bad:
May find it offensive that the idiom illustration depiction of a "Wild goose chase" the police officers are pigs.

You have to flip the book to read the explanation and example sentence that goes with the idiom.

Recommend?
Yes, it's cute and I love it already. Learning about idioms in school was my favorite part of language arts.

This book is such an adorable way to introduce children to idioms! I love the illustrations!!The pictures are all bright and colorful and a ton of fun. My favorites were snug as a bug in a rug and a wild goose chase. Kids will love it!

Thank you to Netgalley, Vanita Books, Vanita Oelschlager and Robin Hegan for providing a digital copy of this title in exchange for an honest review.

This is a cute book with silly illustrations. I love this book! The pictures are beautifully illustrated and depict scenes of common idioms in the English language. This book is a perfect example of making learning fun for little ones. I have no doubt they will be laughing out loud while learning that not everything in life can be interpreted literally. Recommended for early readers.

I read this to the kids I nanny and they loved the story so much. They gave it their thumbs up approval of "silly"!

This is an adorable book that introduces children to idioms in the English language. The illustrations are colorful and funny and include a literal interpretation of the idiom. Upside down on the same page is the true meaning of the idiom. This is a fun and entertaining read and a great introduction to popular idioms- hogwash, raining cats and dogs, ants in your pants (my favorite lol), and many more.

A fun little book with colorful illustrations about different idioms used in the English language.

*thank you to NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review*

4 stars.
This was very clever! Every single one of these expressions I have heard hundreds of times in my life and im sure alot of others have too, including probably your kids. If they are anything like me they will hear these and think, 'huh?'. So to explain what adults mean when they talk this 'gobbledygook', and to place it all in a very well done picture book, is really a genius idea. With the illustrations being so colourful, this is sure to appeal to children of a wide variety of ages.

Interesting way to introduce idioms to kids. Illustrations of literal meaning of the idioms and and explanation of it are given. Good illustrations

Loved the drawings and content. However there are upside down parts and it was a bit small. On a tablet navigating to the upside down part took a lot of effort away from talking about rhe idioms.

5 Stars. What another beautiful, educational book by Vanita Oelschlager with colorful, humorous illustrations by Robin Hegan explaining idioms in a joyful way to your child. This author makes learning fun. Highly recommend! Thanks to NetGalley for providing this ebook for review.

This is a fun, beautifully illustrated book which explains the meanings brhind many common phrases used every day ... like "raining cats and dogs" and "wild goose chase". It is best to read tbis book while sitting across from kids. The definitions are in smaller print and face the opposite direction to the pictures and captions. My kids (3 and 6) got a kick out of the images and silly terms, some of which thry were familiar with and some were new to them.

I really admire Vanita Oelschlager's works, as she makes learning so interesting through all of her picture books.
This one is a great way to teach children idioms. Every page has an idiom not only listed, but also illustrated by taking its meaning literally. The illustrations are cute and hilarious, even more so, because they all feature animals/birds.
The actual meaning of the idiom, along with its usage in a sentence is written at the bottom of each page, inverted, and in tiny lettering, so that it can be referred to only when you really try to read it, and wouldn't interfere with teaching these idioms to children.

The book ends with a super cool explanation of how a particular idiom originated, and encourages readers to find the origins of other idioms, as the words that are used in an idiom, seldom mean what is said in the literal sense, but at the same time, are not a random bunch of words put together.
Another thing at the very end of the book is an illustrated version of the idiom "Like two peas in a pod". This is the only one that does not feature an animal/bird, but the sentence that is used to illustrate the example says that the author and illustrator are like two peas in a pod, in that they both like to make books for children to enjoy, which I thought was just really sweet and adorable! ♥

This book is a good introduction to idioms, with funny (and very literal) illustrations, such as 'raining cats and dogs'. Although some children will be able to see the funny side and make sense of the humour here, I think for others it will go over their heads. The illustrations are great thought - full double-page spreads with nice big text, with much smaller text using the idioms in a sentence. I am not sure why this small text needs to be upside down, but it's helpful to put the idioms into context. I think this book will encourage questions and lots of laughter, which is great.

If you have not already seen the picture book Birds of a Feather, I am going to let the cat out of the bag and tell you that Vanita Oelschlager and Robin Hegan created a delightful take on idioms with this book.

Children will be bright eyed and bushy tailed as they turn each page of these silly sayings.

Each word and phrase is matched with an adorably hilarious illustration, like, Ants in your pants. And when the book is flipped upside down, the hidden meaning of the idiom and usuage in a sentence is readable.

This is a perfectly entertaining book for children to be as snug as a bug in the rug at story time. It is also an excellent resource for teachers to use in a classroom to teach children about word play while allowing them to have fun learning about these common expressions.

I got Goosebumps when I viewed the Bull in a china shop page. This book, I do highly recommend.
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This is a wonderful book helping young children to understand idioms. The illustrations are comical but at the bottom of each picture is an explanation of what the phrase really means. Birds of a Feather would also be excellent for children or adults with developmental delays and ESL students. This should be on the shelf of every special education classroom!