More Parts (Picture Puffin Books) Paperback – Picture Book by Tedd Arnold Original English books

基本信息 出版社: Puffin Books; Reprint 出版时间：2003年10月13日 丛书名: Picture Puffins 平装: 32页 读者对象: 4 - 8 岁 语种： 英语 ISBN:9780142501498 商品尺寸: 21.4 x 0.3 x 24.1 cm 商品重量: 113 g 幽默逗趣 学习身体部位或者器官相关的习惯表达用语。 hold your tongue 闭嘴 Give me a hand 帮我一下 scream your lungs out 大声喊出来 ...... Give me a hand . . . hold your tongue . . . scream your lungs out . . . what's a kid to do if he wants to keep all his body parts in place? Well, one thing is for sure, he'll have to be creative. Like, if you want to keep your heart from breaking, just make sure it's well padded and protected by tying a pillow around your chest. Want to keep your hands attached? Simple-stick them on with gloves and lots of glue. Just be careful not to laugh your head off! From Publishers Weekly For fans of Parts, Tedd Arnold returns with More Parts, continuing the theme of twisted idioms that strike fear in the heart of the uninitiated child. For example, when Dad asks his son to "Please give him a hand!" the bug-eyed boy is shown holding his unhinged appendage by the thumb. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From School Library Journal Gr 1-4-Through zany, brightly colored illustrations and rhyming verse, Arnold explores common figures of speech that amaze and frighten a young boy. "I'll bet that broke your heart," "give him a hand," "Hold your tongue," and "jumps out of his skin" are only a few of the sayings that worry the protagonist, whose imaginings are energetically depicted in colored-pencil and watercolor washes. Goofy, cartoonlike artwork explores the deepest recesses of the child's overwrought and overworked imagination. Kids will love faces cracking, lungs being coughed up, and bodies flying apart. Vivid color and a robust artistic style will attract younger children who may not get the joke, but older children and parents will. Singsong verses in hand-lettered text strain to rhyme in some instances, with a forced, uneven gait. Although the boy's parents reassure him, the story ends where it begins. The father, who "didn't mean to be unkind," tells the child that they were afraid that he'd lost his mind. The final drawing has the boy's brain falling out of his head and onto the floor. This story is like a wild and crazy, totally manic Amelia Bedelia. Children will ask for it again and again. Alice Casey Smith, Sayreville Public Schools, Parlin, NJ Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.