Book Review: The Illustrated Book of Sayings {Blogging for Books}

I reviewed the first book put out by Sanders here.

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Illustrated Book of Sayings by Ella Frances Sanders
ISBN: 978-1607749332
Hardcover, 112 pages
Publisher: Ten Speed
Retail: $14.99

About the book:

From the New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Translation comes this charming illustrated collection of more than fifty expressions from around the globe that explore the nuances of language. From the hilarious and romantic to the philosophical and literal, the idioms, proverbs, and adages in The Illustrated Book of Sayings reveal the remarkable diversity, humor, and poignancy of the world’s languages and cultures.

About the author: ELLA FRANCES SANDERS is a writer out of necessity and an illustrator by accident. She currently lives and works in the city of Bath, UK, without a cat. Her first book, Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World, was a New York Times bestseller and is now, perhaps ironically, being translated into many other languages. She still doesn’t know exactly how it all happened, but things seem to be going OK.
She can be found at ellafrancessanders.com and various other social media places.

My thoughts: Love it! It's a lot like her first book, and includes not so well known phrases from other languages. I like how there are comparable reasons for the saying in another language as there are in English.
I would really have liked a pronunciation of the saying. We like languages in our home, but if we only see the words with no guide on pronunciation... it's not generally a phrase well hold onto. There's always Google Translate, I suppose.
The illustrations are fun, adding to the book's charm.
If there is another book like this from Sanders, I'd like to add it to my collection!