[LM_NET] HIT: books to teach metaphors

[Amy Louthan <alloutha@YAHOO.COM>]

I am sorry it took so long, but here are the suggestions of books to use to teach 
metaphors that I requested for a new 4th grade teacher:
   
  The Bluebonnet nominee from a few years ago Toasting Marshmallows: Camp Poems has 
some in the poems. "The Tent" and the Sleeping Bag poems come to mind off hand.
   
  It would work as a longer read-together, but The Search for Delicious by Natalie 
Babbitt is full of delicious metaphors.  You can also use it for lessons on 
propaganda, bias, etc.
   
  
"It Figures!: Fun Figures of Speech by Marvin Terban

Metaphors, Similes, And Other Word Pictures in Picture Books
  The Wagon [and others by this author]  Tony Johnston
  The Man Who Called Down Owls   Eve Bunting
  The Night Before Christmas Moore, Clement.
  The Bicycle Man   Allen Say
  Hide and Seek Fog   Alvin Tresselt
  Quick as a Cricket   Wood, Audrey.
  Seven Blind Mice  Young, Ed. (398.2 YOL)
  Color Me a Rhyme  Jane Yolen (811 YOL)
  Let’s Get a Pup! Said Kate  Bob Graham
  The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses  Paul Goble (398.2 GOB)
  Chanticleer and the fox   Barbara Cooney
  Owl Moon; Encounter    Jane Yolen
  Come on, Rain     Karen Hesse
  Knots on a Counting Rope  Bill Martin
  Flossie and the Fox  Pat McKissack
  Night of the Twisters  Ivy Ruckman 
  The Talking Eggs   San Souci
  Sam and the Tigers   Julius Lester 
  
  You can find lists in the LM Net Archives and in the Judy Freeman books, but one 
of my favorites (especially for this time of year) is In November by Cynthia 
Rylant.  Beautiful illustrations and the writing is like poetry--full of metaphors.
   
  After consulting with the book, Using Picture books to teach literary 
devices, these are the ones that I am familiar with:

Come on, Rain! by Karen Hesse
River Friendly, River Wild by Jane Kurtz
Black Cat by Christopher Myers
The Little Island by Golden MacDonald
Tar Beach by Fairth Ringgold
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
The Lady and the Spider by Faith McNulty
Knots on a Counting Rope by Bill Martin

  Grandfather's Lovesong by Reeve Lindbergh ; illustrated by Rachel
Isadora. 
   
  Amy Louthan
  Librarian
  Walt Disney Elementary
  Alvin ISD, Alvin, TX
  alouthan@alvinisd.net
  alloutha@yahoo.com
   
   

       
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