The King Who Rained by Fred Gwynne (1970) is a book of metaphors. The illustrations are hilarious. For “Daddy says there are forks in the road,” we see a picture of cars driving on roads made of huge forks lined end to end. When dad gives the house two coats of paint, we see a house with two huge coats covering the entire roof. Metaphors can be very difficult for some speakers of English to understand. This book makes light of the peculiarities of the English language.
