Alliteration

Double Trouble in Walla Walla by Andrew Clements

 

Analogy

 

Fables

Squids will be Squids by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
Coyote by Gerald McDermott
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by A. Wolf as told to Jon Scieszka
The Stinky Cheese Man and the other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith

 

Foreshadowing

 

Imagery

Imagine by Bart Vivian

Moonstick:  The Seasons of the Sioux by Eve Bunting

 

Irony

 

Metaphor

 

Onomatopoeia

Julius Lester’s Sumptuously Silly Fantastically Funny Fables by Julius Lester

 

Personification

 

Perspective

Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne

 

Poetry

If Not for the Cat (Haiku) by Jack Prelutsky

The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
Big Talk by Paul Fleischman

 

Simile
A. Lincoln and Me by Ted Lewin

 

Vocabulary

Miss Alaineus:  A Vocabulary Disaster by Debra Frasier
Thesaurus Rex written by Laya Steinberg

 

Bullying

Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell

Just One Flick of a Finger  Marybeth Lorbieki

 

Cinderella

The Persian Cinderella by Robert Florczak

 

Conduct of Life

The Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy

 

Friendship

 

Relationships

Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles

The Rainbow Tulip by Pat Mora

 

Rhyme

Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! By Dr. Seuss
Wild About Books by Judy Sierra
Oh, The Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss

 

Sports

The Babe and I by David Adler
For the Love of the Cubs by Frederick C. Klein

 

Story Starters (no words)

The Red Book by Barbara Lehman

The Snowman by Raymond Briggs

Zoom  by Istvan Banyai

 

Ancient to Medieval Times

The Shipwrecked Sailor:  An Egyptian Tale with Hieroglyphs by Tamara Bower

Ghosts of the Nile by Cheryl Harness

Hercules by Robert Burleigh and Raul Colon

The Fantastic Journey of Pieter Bruegel by Anders C. Shafer

The Librarian who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky

Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges

 

American Indians

1621:  A New Look at Thanksgiving by Catherine O’Neil Grace and Margaret Bruchac
Thank You, Sarah the Woman who saved Thanksgiving by Laurie Halse Anderson

Moonstick:  The Seasons of the Sioux by Eve Bunting

 

1700’s

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

Molly Bannaky by Alice McGill

O, Say Can You See? By Sheila Kennan

 

Early 1800’s

 

Civil War

A. Lincoln and Me by Ted Lewin

Treemonisha by Angela Medearis

Christmas in the Big House by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack

No More!  Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance by Doreen Rappaport

 

Turn of the Century (19th to 20th)

True Heart by Marissa Moss
The Glorious Flight Across the Channel by Alice and Martin Provensen

The Boy on Fairfield Street:  How Ted Geisel Grew up to become Dr. Seuss by Kathleen Krull

 

World War I

In Flanders Fields by Norman Jorgensen and Brian Harrison Lever

 

1930s

The Dust Bowl by David Booth
The Babe and I by David Adler
Lu and the Swamp Ghost by James Carville

 

WWII

Elisabeth by Claire Nivola

Terrible Things:  An Allegory of the Holocaust by Eve Bunting

The Cats in Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse

The Greatest Skating Race by Louise Borden

The Yellow Star:  The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark by Carmen Deedy

So Far from the Sea by Eve Bunting

Sadako by Eleanor Coerr and Ed Young
Faithful Elephants:  A True Story of Animals, People an War by Yukio Tsuchiya
In My Pocket by Dorrith M. Sim

 

1950s

Goin’ Someplace Special by Patricia McKissack

 

1960s

Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles

The Wall by Eve Bunting

 

Modern Times

 

Science
Arctic Lights/Arctic Nights by Debbie Miller
The Man Who Made Time Travel by Kathryn Lasky
Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei by Peter Sis
Science Verse by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith

 

Math

Actual Size by Steve Jenkins

Big Numbers by Edward Packard
Math Curse by John Scieszka
G is for Googol by David Schwartz
Grandfather Tang’s Story by Ann Tomper
The Grapes of Math by Greg Tang
Using Math to Fly a Jumbo Jet by Mathworks

Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy

My Rows and Piles of Coins by E.B. Lewis

Pigs in the Pantry by Amy Axelrod

Polar Bear Math by Ann Whitehead Nagda and Cindy Bickel

Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi by Cindy Neuschwander
Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland  by Cindy Neuschwander

Sir Cumference and the First Round Table  by Cindy Neuschwander
The Best of Times by Greg Tang

The Librarian who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky

The Story of Money by Betsy Maestro

 

 

United States

The Train of States by Peter Sis
America the Beautiful by Robert Sabuda

So You Want to be President by Judith St. George

 

 

Fine Arts

Jackalope by Janet Stevens & Susan Stevens Crummel
Look-Alikes by Joan Steiner
Handel Who Knew What He Liked by M.T. Anderson
Imagine a Day written by Sarah L. Thompson