Set in the North Pole, Polo the polar bear, asks a caribou, a penguin, a sea lion, and a wolf how their mother loves them. Each animal responds with a phrase that their mother loves them with all their wings, flippers, and teeth. When Polo asks his own mother she says she loves him with [...]
The strength of this book is the wonderful examples of figurative language and descriptive words. Figurative language: “there was an angel with a clown’s face hovering over the bed” on the day that Potch was born which is saying that Potch is a very happy person most of the time. Metaphor: Polly was a sugar [...]
Farm animals pass along some news from cow and get it all mixed up with other words that rhyme. The story is a circle map in that it starts with the hen and cow and ends with the hen and cow. The students do enjoy the humorous phrases that the animals pass along. This book [...]
The idiom, “no pot is so crooked that there isn’t a lid to fit it,” is illustrated as a matchmaker attempts to make a match for herself. The grandson in the story begins to draw the conclusion that his bubbie is interested in Mr. Sussman. Identify the evidence that supports this conclusion.
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