Figurative Language Books
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My Dog Is As Smelly As Dirty Socks: And Other Funny Family Portraits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.94 — 516 ratings — published 2007
Crazy Like a Fox: A Simile Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.87 — 393 ratings — published 2008
Even More Parts (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,121 ratings — published 2004
My Best Friend Is As Sharp As a Pencil: And Other Funny Classroom Portraits (Library Binding)
by (shelved 8 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.78 — 249 ratings — published 2010
Eyes that Kiss in the Corners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.56 — 9,139 ratings — published 2021
There's a Frog in My Throat!: 440 Animal Sayings A Little Bird Told Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.07 — 215 ratings — published 2003
Owl Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 44,669 ratings — published 1987
I Am Every Good Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.61 — 3,581 ratings — published 2020
Wishtree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.28 — 42,122 ratings — published 2017
Firebird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,540 ratings — published 2014
Ava and Taco Cat (Ava and Pip, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.22 — 337 ratings — published 2015
Spoon (The Spoon Series, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,544 ratings — published 2009
Quick as a Cricket (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,763 ratings — published 1982
The Word Collector (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.38 — 5,006 ratings — published 2018
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,862 ratings — published 2017
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.24 — 137,905 ratings — published 2017
Seven Rules You Absolutely Must Not Break If You Want to Survive the Cafeteria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.43 — 106 ratings — published
The Day the Crayons Quit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.42 — 59,844 ratings — published 2013
When Otis Courted Mama: A Heartfelt Picture Book About Accepting a Step-Parent for Kids (Ages 4-7)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 431 ratings — published 2014
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,887,839 ratings — published 2005
More Parts (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,253 ratings — published 2001
You're Toast and Other Metaphors We Adore (Ways to Say It)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.85 — 79 ratings — published 2011
The Smart Cookie (The Food Group #5)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,571 ratings — published 2021
Watercress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.51 — 5,808 ratings — published 2021
Peace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.12 — 374 ratings — published
Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.08 — 829 ratings — published 2020
Southwest Sunrise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.04 — 365 ratings — published 2020
Just Like Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,425 ratings — published 2020
Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,119 ratings — published 2020
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,008 ratings — published 2019
Sulwe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.66 — 11,194 ratings — published 2019
Going Down Home with Daddy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,732 ratings — published 2019
Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,001 ratings — published 2019
When You Are Brave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.25 — 822 ratings — published
The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,549 ratings — published 2017
Angus All Aglow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 185 ratings — published 2018
Swing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,083 ratings — published 2018
Louisiana's Way Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.28 — 13,900 ratings — published 2018
Everything You Need For a Treehouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.82 — 961 ratings — published 2018
Bravo!: Poems About Amazing Hispanics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.17 — 667 ratings — published 2017
Solo (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,672 ratings — published 2017
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,911 ratings — published 2017
Forget Me Not (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.90 — 15,731 ratings — published 2017
7 Ate 9: The Untold Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,714 ratings — published 2017
Giant Squid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,566 ratings — published 2015
The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,255 ratings — published 2016
Library Lil (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,222 ratings — published 1997
Thunder Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.97 — 703 ratings — published 2003
My Mouth Is A Volcano: A Picture Book About Interrupting (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,751 ratings — published 2006
Saturdays and Teacakes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.42 — 501 ratings — published 2004
“Yet she knew that it was not really the sharp tragic knife of passion that disturbed her now, it was some vaguer nervous storm out of her unsatisfied woman's nature.”
― The Nice and the Good
― The Nice and the Good
“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?”
― The Heavens
― The Heavens


