Children's+Literature



**__﻿Children's Literature to Teach Figurative Language__** Books to Teach Similes/Metaphors:

Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood Owl Moon by Jane Yolen Crazy Like a Fox by Loreen Leedy Like Butter on Pancakes by Jonathan London Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold Dakota Duggout by Ann Turner Color Me a Rhyme by Jane Yolen

Books to Teach Personification:

Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig Who Took My Hairy Toe by Shutta Crum Dog Breath by Dav Pilkey

Books to Teach Idioms:

Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish Dog Breath by Dav Pilkey Birds of a Feather by Vanita Oelschlager There's a Frog in my Throat by Pat Street Ugly as a Toad by Julie Fox

Books to Teach Alliteration:

Some Smug Slug by Pamela Edwards Prince Cinders by Babette Cole How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss My Mama Had A Dancing Heart by Libba Moore Gray Big Chickens by Leslie Helakosi

Books to Teach Dialogue

Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco Yo? Yes! by Chris Raschka The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear Let's Get A Pup! Said Kate by Bob Graham