Now that we`re all done reading the Forest of Reading books at school I went looking for some other books from some of our favourite Blue Spruce authors. I found Monkey Business by Wallace Edwards. Edwards was the author of Uncle Wally`s Old Brown Shoe which the kids just loved. They really enjoyed the illustrations. So yesterday I pulled out Monkey Business and read it to a grade 2 and 3 class. They loved it! The book starts with a definition of an idiom which none of them really understood. After one or two pages there was a lot of shouts of "I get it!!" They enjoyed the pictures and especially finding the magic page. This is a fantastic book for grades 2 to 5. Monkey Business is a fun way to teach idioms.