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

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.

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

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 young girl create family portriats with found objects using similes. This book would be great for teachers to use to show students how to integrate similes into their own writing. Students would enjoy finding ways to portray their own family members after reading this book.

Good read aloud, whole family is literally and figuratively described with junk collages. Could have an awesome craft project that accompanies this book for storytime.