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Jiminy cricket! Bookworms of all stripes will have a whale of a time wolfing down these short essays examining 1,200 animal-related expressions. Christine Ammer must have worked like a busy little bee hunting down derivations; while some of her toil resulted in wild goose chases ("why a mixed drink [cocktail] should resemble a rooster's hind feathers is anyone's guess"), any linguistic night owl is sure to take to the lion's share of this book like a duck to water. It's more fun than a barrel of monkeys. And Cathy Bobak's illustrations are just the cat's meow. --Jane Steinberg
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