Eye to Eye shows children the magic of Idioms - words that separately have one meaning, but together take on something entirely different.
Mother of two daughters, stepmother to a son and daughter, she is grandmother to seven..
Prior to her publishing and writing career, Vanita taught school for 19 years and then helped her husband with his company, Oak Associates.
In May 2011, Vanita received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from University of Mount Union.
She was honored as 2009 Woman Philanthropist of the Year by the Summit County United Way.
She won the Congressional \'Angels in Adoption\' Award for the state of Ohio in 2007 and was named National Volunteer of the Year by the MS society in 2008.
She and her husband Jim received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in 2006.
Vanita is also Writer in Residence for the Literacy Program at The University of Akron.
Union College in Alliance, Ohio, where she currently serves as a Trustee.
She is a graduate of Mt.
About author(s): Vanita Oelschlager is a wife, mother, grandmother, philanthropist, former teacher, current caregiver, author and poet.
All four are fun - and instructive.
This will be the fourth in the series, dealing with Body parts.
Our third book, Out of the Blue (2012) dealt with Idioms about colors.
Our second, Life is a Bowl Full of Cherries (2011) uses food idioms.
Our first Book of idioms, Birds of a Feather (2009), dealt with birds, insects or animals.
At the end of the book, the reader is invited to learn more about these figures of speech.
The reader then has to guess the "real" meaning of the phrases (which are at the bottom corner of the spread).
Eye to Eye uses outlandish illustrations of what the words describe literally.
Children are curious about words, especially phrases that make them laugh (Stick Your Neck Out) or sound Silly (All Ears).
Eye to Eye shows children the magic of Idioms - words that separately have one meaning, but together take on something entirely different
