Icing on the Cake

What does it mean to use your noodle?

Why would you spill the beans?

Idioms can be confusing, but they help you to understand English and are a lot of fun to learn!

With clever multicultural illustrations, idiom meanings, and example sentences, Icing on the Cake explains common food idioms in a way that makes them easy to understand. It's a perfect book to build language skills while having fun!

Icing on the Cake includes bonus material to support English language learners and promote culturally responsive teaching, such as links to:

• English audio of the book


• Information about the history of the idioms in the book


• Additional food idioms, their meaning, and history


• Lesson plans to help teach idioms while exposing children to other cultures 

Icing on the Cake is a great resource to teach students in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms.