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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 3.93 — 518 ratings — published 2007
Crazy Like a Fox: A Simile Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.86 — 395 ratings — published 2008
Even More Parts (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,127 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 — 250 ratings — published 2010
Eyes that Kiss in the Corners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.56 — 9,313 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 — 216 ratings — published 2003
Owl Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 44,934 ratings — published 1987
I Am Every Good Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.61 — 3,635 ratings — published 2020
Wishtree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.28 — 43,443 ratings — published 2017
Firebird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,566 ratings — published 2014
Ava and Taco Cat (Ava and Pip, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.21 — 345 ratings — published 2015
Spoon (The Spoon Series, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,564 ratings — published 2009
Quick as a Cricket (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,777 ratings — published 1982
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,140 ratings — published 2019
The Word Collector (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.38 — 5,115 ratings — published 2018
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,976 ratings — published 2017
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.24 — 142,940 ratings — published 2017
Seven Rules You Absolutely Must Not Break If You Want to Survive the Cafeteria: A funny picture book where Kyle imagines lunch ladies and big kids as giant insects―until he conquers cafeteria fears (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.45 — 107 ratings — published
The Day the Crayons Quit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.42 — 60,738 ratings — published 2013
When Otis Courted Mama (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 429 ratings — published 2014
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,967,325 ratings — published 2005
More Parts (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,268 ratings — published 2001
You're Toast and Other Metaphors We Adore (Ways to Say It)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.83 — 81 ratings — published 2011
The Smart Cookie (The Food Group #5)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,911 ratings — published 2021
Watercress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.51 — 6,016 ratings — published 2021
Peace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.12 — 380 ratings — published
Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.09 — 850 ratings — published 2020
Southwest Sunrise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.04 — 374 ratings — published 2020
Just Like Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,431 ratings — published 2020
Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,121 ratings — published 2020
Sulwe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.66 — 11,317 ratings — published 2019
Going Down Home with Daddy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,750 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 — 2,016 ratings — published 2019
When You Are Brave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.25 — 833 ratings — published
The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,572 ratings — published 2017
Angus All Aglow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.25 — 187 ratings — published 2018
Swing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,184 ratings — published 2018
Louisiana's Way Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.28 — 14,217 ratings — published 2018
Everything You Need For a Treehouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.81 — 973 ratings — published 2018
Bravo!: Poems About Amazing Hispanics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.17 — 669 ratings — published 2017
Solo (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,876 ratings — published 2017
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,966 ratings — published 2017
Forget Me Not (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.90 — 16,048 ratings — published 2017
7 Ate 9: The Untold Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,739 ratings — published 2017
Giant Squid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,582 ratings — published 2015
The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,265 ratings — published 2016
Library Lil (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,227 ratings — published 1997
Thunder Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.96 — 711 ratings — published 2003
My Mouth Is a Volcano: A Picture Book About Interrupting (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,797 ratings — published 2006
Saturdays and Teacakes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.42 — 505 ratings — published 2004
“Sweet wine from Spain and gossip from France; the sun in the windows dimmed, sorrowed prettily as the day declined, until the candles' light was mirrored in the glass. Their dabbling flames were like guesses at a feeling, the hearth's fire like the feeling itself. It was a beautiful pastime she had missed; hours that had stepped light-footed on Emilia's memory and passed on.”
― The Heavens
― The Heavens
“I feel I'm living on pain, riding on it, like a sea.”
― The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
― The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
