<DIV><DIV><DIV>You can<I> bet your bottom dollar</I> this funny story is <I>the cream of the crop</I>&#8212;<I>and the best thing since sliced bread</I>! Award-winning artist Serge Bloch will have kids laughing their heads off at this child&#8217;s-eye look at idiomatic expressions like &#8220;ants in your pants,&#8221; &#8220;homework is for the birds,&#8221; and &#8220;cat got your tongue?&#8221; These commonly used sayings make sense in the adult world, but just imagine what a child pictures when she hears it&#8217;s &#8220;raining cats and dogs!&#8221; 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&#8217;s first day of school where colorful butterflies flutter in our hero&#8217;s stomach and a cloud rains on him when he&#8217;s &#8220;under the weather.&#8221; Even the &#8220;big cheese&#8221; Principal has a body cut out of a block of Swiss.&nbsp; </DIV>