Butterflies in My Stomach and Other School Hazards

You can bet your bottom dollar this funny story is the cream of the crop-and the best thing since sliced bread! Award-winning artist Serge Bloch will have kids laughing their heads off at this child's-eye look at idiomatic expressions like "ants in your pants, " "homework is for the birds, " and "cat got your tongue?" These commonly used sayings make sense in the adult world, but just imagine what a child pictures when she hears it's "raining cats and dogs!" 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 boy's first day of school where colorful butterflies flutter in our hero's stomach and a cloud rains on him when he's "under the weather." Even the "big cheese" Principal has a body cut out of a block of Swiss.