![Exactly the Opposite](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0688154735.jpg?itok=vrn9g92x)
Crisp color photographs in this wordless book connect concepts defined in the titles. Another great picture book by Tana Hoban is Is It Rough? Is It Smooth? Is It Shiny? (opens in a new window). Both are sure to generate rich language as each picture is examined and described multiple times. [May also be used for building observational skills in science.]
Exactly the Opposite
![Fancy Nancy's Favorite Fancy Words: From Accessories to Zany](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0061549231.jpg?itok=szbie6lz)
The stylish child whose love of words has become the basis of a series of books shares her love of words in this alphabetically arranged picture book glossary. Humorous illustrations are sure to generate additional words to describe Nancy’s fancy, chic, attractive world.
Fancy Nancy’s Favorite Fancy Words: From Accessories to Zany
![Lemons Are Not Red](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1596431954.jpg?itok=hpvwyOKH)
Lemons Are Not Red
![Extreme Animals](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0763641278.jpg?itok=hOvoklFq)
Extreme Animals
![Sheep in a Jeep](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/039586786X.jpg?itok=qoebiucx)
Silly rhymes about silly activities make the words jump off the page, complemented by humorous illustrations.
Sheep in a Jeep
![Jamberry](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0694006513.jpg?itok=wK9ghswr)
Jaunty rhymes (that just may be ‘sing-able’) are likely to lead to wordplay (literally) as one follows the animal cast play with berries of all kinds.
Jamberry
![Giraffes Can't Dance](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0439287197.jpg?itok=BA75KuJe)
Gerald, the giraffe, is told by the other jungle animals that he can’t dance. Of course, they’re proven wrong as Gerald does his thing in this rhyming tale. This book may also inspire alliterative use of language.
Giraffes Can’t Dance
![Questions, Questions](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0735840008.jpg?itok=yu1ANKdg)
Questions, Questions
![Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0439206634.jpg?itok=VblUet26)
Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School
![Boy Wonders](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1416978771.jpg?itok=Dg2w0z9P)
Boy Wonders
![Looking for Miza](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0545085403.jpg?itok=_39rQ-rN)
Full color photographs chronicle the search for missing mountain gorillas. It is the gorillas that find the young Miza and restore him to his family.
Looking for Miza
![Emily's Runaway Imagination](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0380709236.jpg?itok=eurVXA_1)
Emily Bartlett lives in an old farmhouse in Pitchfork, Oregon at a time when automobiles are brand-new inventions and libraries are a rare luxury. Can Emily use her lively mind to help bring a library to Pitchfork? ReadWriteThink (opens in a new window) offers a persuasive writing lesson plan featuring this book.
Emily’s Runaway Imagination
![Otto Runs for President](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0545037220.jpg?itok=7WsZg6zm)
Otto Runs for President
![""](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/2023-12/grapes-of-math.jpeg?itok=YpCPvAUX)
Two boys meet and develop a friendship. Readers will gain meaning and be able to read expressively from the animated presentation (in typeface and color as well as placement) of simple words which are ideal to read aloud in tandem. (Children can describe not only plot but attributes - characteristics and characterization - of the 2 boys. A discussion of language and how we greet our friends as well could take this into a social skills direction.)
Grapes of Math
![Yo! Yes?](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0439921856.jpg?itok=tbYDJNhd)
Yo! Yes?
![Lady Liberty: A Biography](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0763625302.jpg?itok=v60IggE-)
Lady Liberty: A Biography
![Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0375838023.jpg?itok=wg22haMm)
Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman
![Frog and Toad Together](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/069401298X.jpg?itok=osaf6WQm)
Frog and toad are the best of friends who do everything together.
Frog and Toad Together
![I Can’t Said the Ant](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0698301978.jpg?itok=vlP5z9fj)
An improbable cumulative tale with lots of interesting rhymes that uses illustrations as clues for meaning.
I Can’t Said the Ant
![Fox in Socks](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0394800389.jpg?itok=ejn40Lp3)
Tongue twisters abound in this lively and easy to read book by the famous doctor.
Fox in Socks
![Clang! Clang! Beep! Beep! Listen to the City](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1416940529.jpg?itok=_-QRhCIa)
Rhyming couplets describe city sounds with illustrations embedding the onomatopoeic sounds.
Clang! Clang! Beep! Beep! Listen to the City
![Cha Cha Chimps](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0689864566.jpg?itok=yFO_YnC4)
Chimps from one to ten counting sneak out to dance their rhyming way around and through this very funny counting book.
Cha Cha Chimps
![Why Are the Ice Caps Melting?](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0060546719.jpg?itok=cShZGNrr)
Why Are the Ice Caps Melting?
![Earth Day — Hooray](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0060001291.jpg?itok=7jIC6st9)