Thank you to all that responded - here are the great suggestions:
Similes
A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting
Quick as a Cricket by Wood
Two Mrs. Gibsons by Igus Toyomi
The Wagon by Tony Johnston
The Whales’ Song by Dylan Sheldon
Netties Trip South by Ann Warren Turner
Books for Teaching Similes
Author? Airmail to the Moon.
Bunting, Eve. A Turkey for Thanksgiving.*
Bunting, Eve. The Man Who Called Down Owls.
Carrick, Carol. Dark and Full of Secrets.
Cole, Brock. The Winter Wren.
Collins. The Willow Maiden.
Dragonwagon. Jemima Remembers.
Fields. The Green Lion of Zion Street.
Fleischman, Sid. The Scarebird.
Hanson, Joan. More Similes
Haseley, Dennis. My Father Doesn't Know About the Woods and Me.
Kennedy. Song of the Horse.
Mattingley. The Miracle Tree.
Moore, Clement. The Night Before Christmas.*
Nesbit. The Deliverers of Their Country.
Nixon. Fat Chance, Claude.
Parnall. Apple Tree.
Parnall. Winter Barn.
Say, Allen. The Bicycle Man.
Sommer. I Read You Loud and Clear.
Stolz, Mary. Storm in the Night.*
Tennyson, Alfred. The Lady's Chair and the Ottoman.
Tester. You Dance Like An Ostrich.
Tresselt, Alvin. Hide and Seek Fog.
Turner. Dakota Dugout.
Turner. Nettie's Trip South.
Wood, Audrey. Quiet as a Cricket (Also recommended as Quick as a Cricket).
Yolen, Jane. Owl Moon.
Young, Ed. Seven Blind Mice.
Diary of a Worm and Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin.
No one can resist the page in which worm tells his older sister :no
matter how much time she spends looking in the mirror, her face will
always look just like her rear end" Spider thought that was funny. Mom
did not.
I am no longer in an elementary school library but what about the books by Marvin
Terban?
There is a list on my reading lists wiki
http://atn-reading-lists.wikispaces.com/Simile+sources
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Mary Ann Haug
Library Technology Specialist
Sedalia Elementary School
Sedalia, CO
dmhaug2@comcast.net
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