Not what I was looking for, but better ….

Someone recently asked me for ideas for a lesson on similes.  I like to use picture books to introduce topics, and I think picture books work well with similes.

I came to Big Universe to see if there might be any possibilities. I did an advanced search for figurative language and got this result: Piggies in the Pumpkin Patch.

I read through the book and found that even though I liked the book, it was not exactly what I was looking for right now.  Instead of just closing the book and moving to another resource site, I decided to look at other books by the publisher of this book (you can do that simply by clicking on the name of the publisher ).

As I looked through the long list of books, I started noticing several that I have written about before, read with my daughter, and told other teachers about.  Here are a few of the ones that I noticed:

• A Call for a New Alphabet
• A Place for Zero
• Alice and Greta: A Tale of Two Witches
• First Day Jitters
• Multiplying Menace
• Super Sam
• The Patch