You can bet your bottom dollar this funny story is the cream of the crop�and the best thing since sliced bread! Award-winning artist Serge Bloch will have kids laughing their heads off at this child�s-eye look at idiomatic expressions like �ants in your pants,� �homework is for the birds,� and �cat got your tongue?� These commonly used sayings make sense in the adult world, but just imagine what a child pictures when she hears it�s �raining cats and dogs!� With witty and wonderful images that mix whimsical line drawings with photographs of inanimate objects, Bloch gives us a unique and sympathetic perspective on a boy�s first day of school where colorful butterflies flutter in our hero�s stomach and a cloud rains on him when he�s �under the weather.� Even the �big cheese� Principal has a body cut out of a block of Swiss.