Wow, the illustrations were just incredible. It was a fun book to read too.

I love Graeme Base's books for children, so I was excited to find books in a similar style, by a Canadian author no less! Edwards seems to share my sense of humour, as this book takes common idioms ("playing by ear" is my favourite) and illustrates them with clever pictures. This isn't the kind of book that follows a storyline - nor is it meant to - but rather includes a caption with each individual picture. Probably not something that will capture the interest of a very small child, but clever, funny and beautifully realized.

Although my four-year old loved the pictures with a "find the monkey" spin, the real treat in this book was for me! The idioms were so well illustrated so beautifully and humorously that I wan't to tear the book apart and frame the pages for the nursery. Too bad it was a library book!

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Delightful! Marvelous illustrations. Obviously a book with fun illustrations but also great book for parents and teachers trying to explain idiom's to a child.

This book is awesome. Each page features a literal illustration of an English idiom, like "monkey business" or "rise to the occassion" or "sweet tooth." And every illustration includes a monkey, usually quite well hidden. There is so much to look at in every illustration. Between that and wrapping their little brains around idiomatic expressions they've probably heard but never thought about before, this isn't a book kids will get bored with any time soon. Oh, and it features a cricket named Gavin (illustrating "snug as a bug in a rug").

I am so jealous of Mr. Wallace Edwards art skills. He kills me!

Beautiful artwork!

Beautiful artwork based on fun to read idioms.

Beautiful pictures illustrating common idioms? Count me in!

Wow, just wow! I am very impressed with both the illustrations and the written content of this picture book. The graphics are just stunning - so detailed, gorgeously shaded and colored, so fitting and well thought-out. Each one of them tells a story of its own. They are all meaningful and clever, and together with the commentary underneath, they are sure to entertain and amaze.

This book is about idioms. Each page features one idiom and invites your child to decipher its meaning. I absolutely love the way it engages your child's brain and imagination, being fun and didactic at the same time. Plus - this being a Monkey Business - there is a monkey hidden on every page, but you don't know this until the very end, so once you get to the last page, you immediately want to flip back to the beginning and read the book again, just so you can spot each hiding monkey!

This is definitely a keeper. Love it.

I enjoyed Mr. Edwards creative interpretation of idioms in his art work and the art work itself. But the book was not that interesting to my kids. In fact, as I was reading it they asked, "when will it be over? I don't like it." We finished it, but just barely. At the end of the book he lists all the idioms he used and what they really mean which I enjoyed because now my kids know what "fish out of water," bull in a china shop," dog-eat-dog," and many more idioms mean.