Felling Pretty Special

     Hi, Pat Street

         I got your comment that you gave on my post called Spilling The Beans. I like your book called There's A Frog In My Throat. I liked it a lot. There were a lot of idoms that I did not know about.  I thought "as mad as a wet hen" was very funny! The idoms about the dogs were really good. What inspired you to make a idiom book?

          I wrote a poem to the  Anthology of Poetry. It was about a toad. I started to write poetry in third grade. I always thought that I didn't like it. Now I love poetry.

         Mrs. Davis found a book about what "spilling the beans" means. It tells a lot about it. I thought the description was very vivid. You should go to the class weblog and read it. It might give you a better definition.

    I was the first student in our blog class to get a comment from you. I feel special. Yes, I have recovered from my accident. I want to read more of your books. They sound interesting.

                                       Thank You,

                                        Sincerely, Ashley

    

Comments

[Pat Street]

Ashley!

It's great to hear from you and I'm glad you like my book. It was really fun to write. I have collected idioms for a long time. They're a good thing to collect because they don't cost any money! :-) Whenever I hear a new one, I add it to my list.

In the book I tried to include some really unusual idioms as well as the common ones, so that everyone could find a few that they didn't know. It's fun when people are looking at the book and go, "Oh! That's a funny one I've never heard before!"

Oh, by the way, I did look on the class weblog, as you suggested, and it was fun to read more about "spilling the beans."

I'm so glad you are all well from your accident. (I was in a car accident this winter too, and I'm just about well myself.)

I write poems sometimes too. It's fun. I started when I was about your age. I've never had one published, though, so you're doing really well! I would like to read your poem about the toad.

Sincerely,
Pat Street

[Ashley]

Dear Pat Street,

I never knew that you were in a accident. I am glad that you are healing!
I write a lot of poems and songs, but I never told anybody. I love to write poetry. I don't think people knew. In third grade I wrote a poem that was about how much I hated poetry. That is how I began. Now it is very fun to write poetry.
There were a lot of new idioms in your book that I did not know. I laughed a lot. It was so funny.
I am going to see if we have any of your books in the library.

Sincerely, Ashley