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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 — 522 ratings — published 2007
Crazy Like a Fox: A Simile Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.86 — 396 ratings — published 2008
Even More Parts (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,126 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 — 9,344 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 — 44,993 ratings — published 1987
I Am Every Good Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.61 — 3,641 ratings — published 2020
Wishtree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.28 — 43,722 ratings — published 2017
Firebird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,573 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 4.24 — 4,568 ratings — published 2009
Quick as a Cricket (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,786 ratings — published 1982
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,178 ratings — published 2019
The Word Collector (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.38 — 5,132 ratings — published 2018
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,999 ratings — published 2017
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.24 — 143,948 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 — 60,956 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 — 2,984,188 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 — 4,977 ratings — published 2021
Watercress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.50 — 6,055 ratings — published 2021
Peace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.12 — 381 ratings — published
Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.09 — 855 ratings — published 2020
Southwest Sunrise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.04 — 375 ratings — published 2020
Just Like Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,439 ratings — published 2020
Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,124 ratings — published 2020
Sulwe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.66 — 11,354 ratings — published 2019
Going Down Home with Daddy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,763 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 — 2,038 ratings — published 2019
When You Are Brave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.25 — 837 ratings — published
The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,578 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 3.91 — 7,199 ratings — published 2018
Louisiana's Way Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.28 — 14,284 ratings — published 2018
Everything You Need For a Treehouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.81 — 977 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 — 13,938 ratings — published 2017
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,983 ratings — published 2017
Forget Me Not (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 16,119 ratings — published 2017
7 Ate 9: The Untold Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,743 ratings — published 2017
Giant Squid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,583 ratings — published 2015
The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,268 ratings — published 2016
Library Lil (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,231 ratings — published 1997
Thunder Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 3.97 — 714 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 — 2,819 ratings — published 2006
Saturdays and Teacakes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as figurative-language)
avg rating 4.42 — 506 ratings — published 2004
“Tongues of Fire
This is what's become of us: I am
confused by mourning, and he is the sun
that goes to sleep on top of me, undone
by moonrise. Lover, all I speak is iambs
and slant rhyme. That devil lamb
of light called hope is sacrificed and none
too pleased with having lost its bleat. The stone
has rolled away but God's not gone and damn
it, I'm no fan of the weather here, it rains
too often, bones of doves and angel down
until the ground stains red with sighs and blood.
It is wet and cold. Will you explain
again the why of all there is and how
he caught me in the act, discovering God?”
― Heaven
This is what's become of us: I am
confused by mourning, and he is the sun
that goes to sleep on top of me, undone
by moonrise. Lover, all I speak is iambs
and slant rhyme. That devil lamb
of light called hope is sacrificed and none
too pleased with having lost its bleat. The stone
has rolled away but God's not gone and damn
it, I'm no fan of the weather here, it rains
too often, bones of doves and angel down
until the ground stains red with sighs and blood.
It is wet and cold. Will you explain
again the why of all there is and how
he caught me in the act, discovering God?”
― Heaven
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value”
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