Best Kids Books for Teaching Idioms

Teaching idioms can be a lot of fun. Kids get a kick out of learning about the back story about how they came about and the' ways that people from different cultures and time periods describe events and people in their environment. The following books are great sources of common idioms for kids in elementary and middle school. The books below generally fall into two categories: those that focus on teaching funny literal interpretations of the idioms and those that focus on teaching the actual meanings of idioms. Both are great resources for teaching idioms in the classroom (since even the silly books do devote a portion of their books to explaining the meaning of the idioms.) There are many children's books that play on literal translations of idioms, but in our opinion, Bloch's clever and unique trio of books (below) are 'the best thing since sliced bread.'