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
Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport – Marjorie Weinman Sharmat