Figurative Language


My Dog Is As Smelly As Dirty Socks: And Other Funny Family Portraits
Crazy Like a Fox: A Simile Story
Even More Parts
My Best Friend Is As Sharp As a Pencil: And Other Funny Classroom Portraits
Eyes that Kiss in the Corners
There's a Frog in My Throat!: 440 Animal Sayings A Little Bird Told Me
Owl Moon
I Am Every Good Thing
Wishtree
Firebird
Ava and Taco Cat (Ava and Pip, #2)
Spoon (The Spoon Series, #1)
Quick as a Cricket
The Word Collector
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)
Sandra Newman
She added in a tight, defensive voice that she panicked when she did jobs, it gave her existential panic. She could do them for a while, but it felt like darning socks in a burning building. Time was running out and . . . Did he ever get that?
Sandra Newman, The Heavens

Deborah Landau
tonight the backyard is brutal in its twilit emptiness & I have put my lips on the glass of his face again so I won't be lonely & I have dressed to please him because it's too quiet here my hand alive in the cage of his an actual dandelion in the grass beside his sandal the mosquitoes grazing our ankles we should go inside he says as the pitchblack comes on again like arsenic over the glowing lawn ...more
Deborah Landau, The Last Usable Hour

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