Eye to Eye: A Book of Body Part Idioms and Silly Pictures - Hardcover

Eye to Eye shows children the magic of idioms – words that separately have onemeaning, but together take on something entirely different.Children are curious about words, especially phrases that make them laugh (StickYour Neck Out) or sound silly (All Ears).Eye to Eye uses outlandish illustrations of what the words describe literally. Thereader then has to guess the “real” meaning of the phrases (which are at thebottom corner of the spread). At the end of the book, the reader is invited to learnmore about these figures of speech.Our first book of idioms, Birds of a Feather (2009), dealt with birds, insects oranimals. Our second, Life is a Bowl Full of Cherries (2011) uses food idioms.Our third book, Out of the Blue (2012) dealt with idioms about colors. This will bethe fourth in the series, dealing with body parts. All four are fun – and instructive.

Vanita Oelschlager is a wife, mother, grandmother, philanthropist, former teacher,current caregiver, author and poet. She is a graduate of Mt. Union College inAlliance, Ohio, where she currently serves as a Trustee. Vanita is also Writer inResidence for the Literacy Program at The University of Akron. She and her husbandJim received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Multiple SclerosisSociety in 2006. She won the Congressional ‘Angels in Adoption’ Award for the stateof Ohio in 2007 and was named National Volunteer of the Year by the MS society in2008. She was honored as 2009 Woman Philanthropist of the Year by the SummitCounty United Way. In May 2011, Vanita received an honorary Doctor of HumaneLetters from University of Mount Union.Prior to her publishing and writing career, Vanita taught school for 19 years and thenhelped her husband with his company, Oak Associates. Mother of two daughters,stepmother to a son and daughter, she is grandmother to seven.