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Product Description: This fun and colorful activity book is perfect for helping young children learn 50 basic English phrases Covering all that is needed to get started, this book is ideal for children who are new to the English language in learning 50 important phrases...read more
By Leighton Noyes (illustrator)

Paperback:

9781905710607 | B Small Pub, June 1, 2009, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: This fun and colorful activity book is perfect for helping young children learn 50 basic English phrases Covering all that is needed to get started, this book is ideal for children who are new to the English language in learning 50 important phrases.

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Defines the mode of comparison known as simile and provides many examples in rhyming text.
By Norton Juster and David Small (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780688081393 | William Morrow & Co, March 1, 1989, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Defines the mode of comparison known as simile and provides many examples in rhyming text.

Library:

9780688081409 | William Morrow & Co, March 1, 1989, cover price $15.89 | About this edition: Defines the mode of comparison known as simile and provides many examples in rhyming text.

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Previously published under the title, As: A Surfeit of Similes, a delightful book by the author of The Phantom Tollbooth defines the mode of comparison known as simile and provides many examples in rhyming text. Reprint. K.
By Norton Juster and David Small (illustrator)

Paperback:

9780688163600 | Beech Tree Books, September 1, 1998, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Defines the mode of comparison known as simile and provides many examples in rhyming text

Defines the mode of comparison known as simile and provides many examples in rhyming text
By David Small (illustrator)

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9780606154437 | Demco Media, January 1, 1999, cover price $11.59 | About this edition: Defines the mode of comparison known as simile and provides many examples in rhyming text

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Product Description: From New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark, comes the final installment in the Official Queen of Street Literature's unrivaled Payback series.Someone wants every member of the consortium dead and they’ll stop at nothing to make that happen...read more

Hardcover:

9781936399505, titled "Blood, Sweat & Payback" | Simon & Schuster, April 22, 2014, cover price $22.99

Paperback:

9781936399871, titled "Blood, Sweat & Payback" | Cashmoney, September 29, 2015, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: From New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark, comes the final installment in the Official Queen of Street Literature's unrivaled Payback series.
9781936399413, titled "Blood, Sweat & Payback" | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, November 11, 2014), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: From New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark, comes the highly anticipated next installment in the Queen’s Payback series.
9780448404516, titled "A Cache of Jewels: And Other Collective Nouns" | Reprint edition (Price Stern Sloan, April 1, 1991), cover price $6.99 | also contains A Cache of Jewels: And Other Collective Nouns | About this edition: Illustrations and a rhyming text explain the principle of collective nouns

CD/Spoken Word:

9781482971231, titled "Blood, Sweat, and Payback" | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 22, 2014), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [Read by Cary Hite]From New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark comes the highly anticipated next installment in the Queen's notorious Payback series.
9781482971224, titled "Blood, Sweat, and Payback" | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 22, 2014), cover price $29.95

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Illustrations and a rhyming text explain the principle of collective nouns

Hardcover:

9780448192116, titled "Cache of Jewels and Other Collective Nouns" | Grosset & Dunlap, October 1, 1987, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Illustrations and a rhyming text explain the principle of collective nouns

Paperback:

9780698113541, titled "A Cache of Jewels and Other Collective Nouns" | Puffin, February 1, 1998, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Illustrations and a rhyming text explain the principle of collective nouns
9780448404516 | Reprint edition (Price Stern Sloan, April 1, 1991), cover price $6.99 | also contains Blood, Sweat and Payback | About this edition: Illustrations and a rhyming text explain the principle of collective nouns

Reinforced:

9780606051781 | Demco Media, April 1, 1991, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Illustrations and a rhyming text explain the principle of collective nouns

Prebinding:

9781435265448, titled "A Cache of Jewels and Other Collective Nouns" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 25, 2008), cover price $16.99
9780833558619, titled "A Cache of Jewels and Other Collective Nouns" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: Illustrations and a rhyming text explain the principle of collective nouns

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The Cheetah girls give definitions of words or phrases that they commonly use and show readers how to properly incorporate them into sentences, including the terms 'growl power,' 'cheetah pound,' and 'majordomo wack.'

Paperback:

9780786847167 | Disney Pr, July 1, 2006, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: The Cheetah girls give definitions of words or phrases that they commonly use and show readers how to properly incorporate them into sentences, including the terms 'growl power,' 'cheetah pound,' and 'majordomo wack.

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Presents examples of folk speech used during the period 1815 to 1950. Identifies their meaning and the regions in which they were collected.

Library:

9780397318704 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1979, cover price $12.89 | About this edition: An illustrated compendium of American folk sayings and expressions highlights the down-home wit and wisdom of rural America

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Product Description: With his hilarious wordplay and zany humor, Fred Gwynne keeps children of all ages in stitches!

Paperback:

9780689878275 | Aladdin Paperbacks, January 1, 2005, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: A little girl pictures the things her parents talk about, such as a chocolate moose, a gorilla war, and shoe trees.
9780590995153 | Scholastic Educational, October 1, 1997, cover price $2.95
9780671667412 | Aladdin Paperbacks, February 1, 1988, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: A little girl pictures the things her parents talk about, such as a chocolate moose, a gorilla war, and shoe trees

School and Library:

9780671666859 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1989, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A little girl pictures the things her parents talk about, such as a chocolate moose, a gorilla war, and shoe trees

Reinforced:

9780606035583 | Demco Media, February 1, 1988, cover price $15.81 | About this edition: A little girl pictures the things her parents talk about, such as a chocolate moose, a gorilla war, and shoe trees

Prebinding:

9781439599488 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: With his hilarious wordplay and zany humor, Fred Gwynne keeps children of all ages in stitches!
9780613064927 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: A little girl pictures the things her parents talk about, such as a chocolate moose, a gorilla war, and shoe trees

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Simba, Pumbaa, Zazu, and other characters from the animated movie, The Lion King, join other African animals as they act out more than twenty different idioms--from the turtles who come out of their shells to the tongue-tied anteaters.
By Chip Lovitt, H. R. Russell (illustrator) and Marshall Toomey (illustrator)

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9780786830367 | Disney Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Characters from 'The Lion King,' illustrate various idioms from 'head in the clouds' to 'go with the flow.

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Discusses the history and meaning of all kinds of food-related words and phrases and describes customs and beliefs about various foods. (view table of contents)

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9780606179966 | Demco Media, November 1, 2000, cover price $19.33 | About this edition: Discusses the history and meaning of all kinds of food-related words and phrases and describes customs and beliefs about various foods.

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Provides an explanation as to how certain foods and food terminology, such as 'hush puppies' and 'selling like hotcakes', came to be apart of today's everyday conversation. (view table of contents)
By Charlotte Foltz Jones and John O'Brien (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780385325752 | Delacorte Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Discusses the history and meaning of all kinds of food-related words and phrases and describes customs and beliefs about various foods

Paperback:

9780385325783 | Delacorte Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Discusses the history and meaning of all kinds of food-related words and phrases and describes customs and beliefs about various foods.

A thesaurus of phrases designed to provide an appreciation for and understanding of idioms, similes, and other colorful phrases.
By John Kerschbaum (illustrator) and Elyse Sommer

Hardcover:

9780886875756 | Pharos Books, May 1, 1990, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A thesaurus of phrases designed to provide an appreciation for and understanding of idioms, similes, and other colorful phrases.

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Discusses the true meanings and origins of such idioms as 'let the cat out of the bag,' 'get it straight from the horse's mouth,' and more than two dozen other expressions. Reissue.

Paperback:

9780618830015 | Reissue edition (Houghton Mifflin, June 18, 2007), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Discusses the true meanings and origins of such idioms as 'let the cat out of the bag,' 'get it straight from the horse's mouth,' and more than two dozen other expressions.
9780899191645 | Clarion Books, April 1, 1983, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Discusses the true meanings and origins of such idioms as 'let the cat out of the bag,' 'get it straight from the horse's mouth,' and more than two dozen other expressions

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9780606008129 | Demco Media, April 1, 1983, cover price $16.90 | About this edition: Discusses the true meanings and origins of such idioms as 'let the cat out of the bag,' 'get it straight from the horse's mouth,' and more than two dozen other expressions

Prebinding:

9781417790777, titled "In a Pickle And Other Funny Idioms" | Turtleback Books, June 1, 2007, cover price $17.15 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Thirty common English phrases, such as 'a chip off the old block' and 'cry over spilled milk' are illustrated and explained.

Prebinding:

9780613775496 | Turtleback Books, April 1, 1983, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: Discusses the true meanings and origins of such idioms as 'let the cat out of the bag,' 'get it straight from the horse's mouth,' and more than two dozen other expressions

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Product Description: Thirty popular expressions such as "straight from the horse's mouth" and "white elephant" are amusingly explained and illustrated.

Prebinding:

9781435273429, titled "In a Pickle: And Other Funny Idioms" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 9, 2008), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Thirty popular expressions such as "straight from the horse's mouth" and "white elephant" are amusingly explained and illustrated.

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Product Description: A brightly illustrated book that makes learning more than 200 useful phrases and expressions easy and fun.

Hardcover:

9781550744774 | Ill edition (Kids Can Pr, September 1, 1999), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Offers a series of sentences in French and English about Rose, her family and friends, and their activities

Paperback:

9781553376507 | Kids Can Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $7.95 | also contains The Kids Can Press French & English Phrase Book | About this edition: A brightly illustrated book that makes learning more than 200 useful phrases and expressions easy and fun.

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A collection of more than two hundred common phrases and expression, rendered in both English and Spanish and accompanied by bright clear illustrations, features double-page displays focusing on one event, helping to hone young language skills.

Hardcover:

9781550745412 | Kids Can Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Offers a series of sentences in Spanish and English about Rosa, her family and friends, and their activities

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Illustrates and explains more than one hundred common English idioms, in categories including animals, body parts, and colors. Reissue.

Paperback:

9780618830039 | Reissue edition (Houghton Mifflin, June 18, 2007), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Illustrates and explains over 100 common English idioms, in categories including animals, body parts, and colors.
9780899194790, titled "Mad As a Wet Hen: And Other Funny Idioms" | Houghton Mifflin, October 19, 1987, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Illustrates and explains over 100 common English idioms, in categories including animals, body parts, and colors

Prebinding:

9781417790784, titled "Mad as a Wet Hen! And Other Funny Idioms" | Turtleback Books, June 1, 2007, cover price $17.15 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
9780613775526 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1987, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: Illustrates and explains over 100 common English idioms, in categories including animals, body parts, and colors

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Product Description: Have you ever been so angry that you were mad as a wet hen? The meanings of 134 lively idioms are explained in this entertaining and useful book.
By Giulio Maestro (illustrator) and Marvin Terban

Hardcover:

9780899194783 | Clarion Books, June 1, 1987, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Illustrates and explains over 100 common English idioms, in categories including animals, body parts, and colors

Reinforced:

9780606018050 | Demco Media, October 1, 1987, cover price $16.89 | About this edition: Illustrates and explains over 100 common English idioms, in categories including animals, body parts, and colors

Prebinding:

9781439527474, titled "Mad As a Wet Hen!: And Other Funny Idioms" | Reissue edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Have you ever been so angry that you were mad as a wet hen?

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Nearly thirty humorous 'as' or 'like' comparisons, such as 'eat like a pig' and 'as high as a kite,' are illustrated in this introduction to similes

Library:

9780822511120 | Lerner Pub Group, February 1, 1979, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A collection of similes accompanied by pictures that illustrate their meaning.

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Describes the background of words that deal with time from Aion and bee time to twilight and watchman

Hardcover:

9780395663745 | Houghton Mifflin, December 1, 1994, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Describes the background of words that deal with time from Aion and bee time to twilight and watchman

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Traditional sayings that are often heard but not explained are given meaning as the author provides brief and simple explanations for fifty-eight common expressions

Hardcover:

9780571115945 | Faber & Faber, December 1, 1980, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Traditional sayings that are often heard but not explained are given meaning as the author provides brief and simple explanations for fifty-eight common expressions

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Product Description: "An examination of the rules behind English grammar, focusing on the components known as phrases, clauses, and conjunctions, which are groups of words that comprise and connect all parts of a sentence"--Provided by publisher.

Hardcover:

9781445110776, titled "Phrases, Clauses and Conjunctions" | Gardners Books, July 26, 2012, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: "An examination of the rules behind English grammar, focusing on the components known as phrases, clauses, and conjunctions, which are groups of words that comprise and connect all parts of a sentence"--Provided by publisher.

Library:

9781608180943 | Creative Educ, July 1, 2011, cover price $38.50 | About this edition: "An examination of the rules behind English grammar, focusing on the components known as phrases, clauses, and conjunctions, which are groups of words that comprise and connect all parts of a sentence"--Provided by publisher.

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The meanings and origins of twenty-one common American idioms are explained in easy-to-read terms and are depicted in humorous cartoons

Hardcover:

9780394845036 | Random House Childrens Books, September 1, 1980, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Discusses the origin and meaning of 21 sayings used in American English.

Library:

9780394945033 | Random House Childrens Books, September 1, 1980, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Discusses the origin and meaning of 21 sayings used in American English.

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