Books for Poetry

Picture Books For Teaching Poetic Devices

Metaphors/Similes

Frederick – Leo Lionni

Quick as a Cricket – Audrey Woods

The Wonder Thing – Libby Hathorn

Hailstones and Halibut Bones – Mary O’Neill

Onomatopoeia

A Day at Damp Camp – George Ella Lyon

Double Trouble in Walla Walla – Andrew Clements

City Sounds – Rebecca Emberly

Charlie Parker Played be bop – Chris Raschka

Alliteration

Animalia – Graeme Base

Poetic Language

When I Was Young in the Mountains – Cynthia Rylant

The Relatives Came – Cynthia Rylant

What You Know First – Patricia McLachlan

Owl Moon – Jane Yolen

Dreamkeeper – Langston Hughes

Going Home – Eve Bunting

Night of the Gargoyles – Eve Bunting

Welcome to the Sea of Sand – Jane Yolen

Night Sounds, Morning Colors – Rosemary Wells

Poetic Forms

A Poke in the I – Paul Janeszko

Eats – Arnold Adoff

Dialect

Flossie and the Fox – Patricia McKissack

Airmail to the Moon – Tom Birdseye

Letter Writing

The Gardener – Sarah Stewart

Dear Mr. Blueberry

Point of View