Icing on the Cake: Food Idioms (A Multicultural Book) (Language Lizard Idiom)

I read this book aloud to my three daughters -- ages 9, 12 and 17 -- and each of them learned new idioms! The girls had lots of fun guessing what the idioms meant before I read the definitions aloud. The artwork is beautiful as well as sophisticated making the book of interest to children of ALL ages. I can't wait to read the other books in the series to my girls. Hooray for author Troon Harrison, illustrator Joyeeta Neogi and publisher Language Lizard!

I received a finished copy of this book from the publisher Language Lizard, LLC, as part of the 2021 Multicultural Children's Book Day. As someone who has personally been asked by my Japanese friends what some English idioms mean, I see this book as a great help to explain in both text and bright illustrations the meaning behind the phrases. I smiled at some of the humor in both text and art and enjoyed seeing many different cultures represented in the book.Some of the examples relied more on the visuals to explain the idioms and a few had examples I wished had been stronger. This book has links for English audio of the text, lesson plans for teachers and parents, more food idioms to understand, as well as translations in other languages. Overall, this book and the resources provided are highly recommended for everyone, even those who are native English speakers. Idioms are not always easily understandable in context for everyone and this book will generate more conversations about how these phrases can be used personally.

I was very impressed with this whole series of idiom books. I like that each book has it's own theme and each page has such colorful, interesting pictures. I also personally liked the diversity of cultures depicted within the pictures. I work with kids on the spectrum who don't necessarily intuitively know expressions and idioms. Since people with autism are often visual learners, the pictures were very helpful to them to understand the meaning. The definitions and examples were also very straightforward and used simple enough language, that they could understand what the idiom meant and how it was used. They were excited to learn each idiom and see what the next idiom was. I would highly recommend this whole series for anyone working with the types of learners that I work with.