My Dog Is As Smelly As Dirty Socks: And Other Funny Family Portraits

Really creative illustrations, all made of found objects. Good for introducing similes to young writers.

A charming book that can spur a wonderful creativity in the readers. This can trigger great art project ideas, as well as promoting vivid similes in writing personality sketches. Love the endpapers done by children who were cancer patients. Very moving.

The story is told from the perspective of a little girl who is not quite satified with the simple family portrait she has drawn for her teacher with a pen on a piece of plain notebook paper. Her original drawing fails to capture her family members' true personalities, and so she sets about describing each of them through common household objects that she glues on top of watercolor bodies to create a new set of portraits.

This is a great book about a girls describing her family by using items to describe them. It is humorous and it also teaches kids the use of metaphors. All children can relate this their families and it also could lead into a great project about one's family.

Found in the activity alcove in the art museum in OKC. A little long for that setting, but perfect for a family or classroom. Even older students could use it to have fun with symbolic artistic expression. After all, symbols have been used in art into the indefinite past (see, for fun examples, here: http://blog.artsome.co/decoding-symbols-in-renaissance-art).

A girl uses different items to describe her family and dog, and the collage illustrations use the items to create funny pictures.

A cute picture book using objects to make the pictures. Should get the kids thinking of different ways to create.