11. Picture Books with Pizzaz for Middle School/Junior High © 2000 Nancy Polette
LURES TO LANGUAGE
Some Smug Slug by Pamela Edwards. HarperCollins, 1996. alliteration
Fed Up! A Feast of Frazzled Foods by Rex Barron. Putnam, 2000 alliteration
The Z Was Zapped by Chris Van Allsburg. Houghton Mifflin, 1987 alliteration
Elvis Lives and Other Anagrams by Jon Agee. Farrar, 2000 anagrams
So Many Dynamos by Jon Agee. Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1993. palindromes
Toad by Ruth Brown. Dutton, 1997. Descriptive writing
Grandfather Twilight by Barbara Berger, Philomel, 1984. Metaphor/personification
Grandmother Winter by Phyllis Root.. Houghton Mifflin, 1999
Workshop by Andrew Clements. Illus. by David Wisnieski. Clarion,
1999.
White Bear, Ice Bear by Joanne Ryder. Morrow, 1989. Non fiction narrative
Cinderella Parodies
Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella by Tony Johnston. Illus. by James Warhola. Putnam,
1998.
Bubba the Cowboy Prince: A Fractured Texas Tale. Illus. by James
Warhola. Scholastic,'87
Cinder Edna by Ellen Jackson. Illus. by Kevin O'Malley. Lothrop, 1994
Cinder-Elly by Frances Minters. Illus. by G. Brian Karas. Viking, 1994.
Cinderella Skeleton by Robert San Souci. Illus. by David Catrow. Harcourt,
2000.
Cinderella's Rat by Susan Meddaugh. Houghton-Mifflin, 1997.
Dinorella by Pamela Edwards. Illus. by Henry Cole. Hyperion, 1997.
Other Fairy Tale Parodies
The Frog Prince Continued by Jon Scieszka. Illus. by Steve Johnson. Puffin,
1994.
Hansel and Pretzel by Mike Thaler. Illus. by Jared Lee. Scholastic, 1997.
Jim and the Beanstalk by Raymond Briggs. Coward, 1989.
Rumplestiltskin's Daughter by Diane Stanley. Morrow, 1997
Sleepless Beauty by Frances Minters. Illus by G. Brian Karas. Viking, 1996.
Snow White in New York by Fiona French. Oxford University Press, 1986
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl. Illus. by Quentin Blake. Knopf, 1982.
Parodies, Literary, Film, Theatre
The Happy Hockey Family by Lane Smith. Viking, 1996.
Kat Kong by Dave Pilkey. Harcourt, 1993.
Oh Brother! by Arthur Yorinks. illustrated by Richard Egielski Farrar, 1989
The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Ted Dewan. Doubleday, 1998.
Swine Lake by James Marshall. Illus. by Maurice Sendak. HarperCollins, 1999.
The Inner City Mother Goose by Eve Merriam.. Simon & Schuster, reissue 1996.
Ding Dong, Ding Dong by Margie Palatini. Hyperion, 1999 Puns
Nose Drops by Larry Shles. Squib Publications, 1994.
BEING DIFFERENT
Aliens in My Nest: Squib Meets the Teen Creature by Larry Shles. Jalmar,
1988.
Appearing Tonight, Mary Heather Elizabeth Livingstone by Oliver Dunrea. Farrar, 2000.
GUNS/VIOLENCE
Just One Flick of a Finger by Marybeth Lorbiecki. Illus. by David Diaz. Dial,
1996
HOLOCAUST
Rose Blanche by Roberto Innocenti. Creative Education, 1985
HOMELESS
FLY AWAY HOME by Eve Bunting. Illus. by Ronald Himler. Clarion, 1991.
MIND CONTROL
The Watertower By Gary Crew Illus. by Steven Woolman. Crocodile Books U.S.A. 1999.
THE POWER OF NATURE
The Bird House by Cyynthia Rylant. Dutton, 1998.
PRICE OF FREEDOM
The Wagon by Tony Johnston. Illus. by James E. Ransome. Tambourine Books, 1996
PROBLEMS OF SOCIETY
From A Distance by Julie Gold. Dutton, 2000.
House That Crack Built by Clark Taylor. Illus. by Jan Thompson Dicks. Chronicle, 1992
Smoky Night by Eve Bunting. Illus. by David Diaz. Harcourt, 1994.
Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth Illus. by Chris Soentpiet. Doubleday, 1998
The Wretched Stone by Chris Van Allsburg. Houghton Mifflin, 1991
SELF IDENTITY
Goose by Molly Bang. Blue Sky Press, 1999
The Circus of Mystery by Marua Fazzi and Peter Kuhner. North-South Books, 2000.
SUICIDE
I Never Knew Your Name by Sherry Garland. Ticknor & Fields, 1994.
WAGES OF WAR
The Cello of Mr. O. by Jane Cutler. Illus. by Greg Couch. Dutton, 1999.
The Sleeping Boy by Sonia Craddock Illus. by Leonid Gore. Simon & Shuster
1999.