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Books that teach Alliteration 

 

"Alligators All Around",by Sendak

"Away From Home" by Anita Lobel

Buster Loves Buttons by Fran Manushkin

Chicken Little by Steven Kellogg

Duke the Dairy Delight Dog

In window eight, the moon is late by Diane Worfolk Allison

Many mumbling mice are making music in the moonlight...mighty nice!
My Name is  Alice

"Noisy Poems", by Jill Bennett

Once upon A to Z

"Pair of Proceratops" by Bernard Most

The patchwork cat  By William Mayne

 "Pied Piper" video by HBO

"Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut" by Margaret Atwood

Psst! It's me, the Bogeyman by Parks.

The rose in my garden  by Arnold Lobel

A snake is totally tail by Judi Barrett

 "Sounds"by J. Douglas Lee

Soup for supper  by Phyllis Root

 The voyage of the Ludgate Hill  by Nancy Willard

Walking is wild, weird and wacky by Kerber.

Watch William Walk by Ann Jonas

What's under my bed  by James Stevenson

Wild Wild Sunflower child by Nancy White Carlstrom

"Wizzil" by William Steig

The worrywarts by Pamela Edwards
 Old Hannibal and the Hurricane  by Berthe Amoss
Mama, Papa, and Baby Joe  by Niki Daly
Small mall  By Edward Hazel

Wild wild sunflower child Anna  by Nancy White Carlstrom
The winter wren  by Brock Cole
Dinorella

  It tells the Cinderella story with dinosaurs as the main characters. The picture of the dinosaur pulling stockings over her chunky scaly leg is worth the price of the book.  It uses alliteration on the letter D throughout the story.  It is by Pamela Edwards.

The sun's day  by Mordicai Gerstein
How do you hide a monster  by Virginis Kahl
Plum pudding for Christmas  by Virginia Kahl
Alison's Zinnia  by Anita Lobel
Calmenson, Stephanie (1998). The teeny tiny teacher. New York: Scholastic.
Carter, Alden R. (1999). Dustin's big school day. Morton Grove, IL: Albert Whitman.
The Great Fuzz Frenzy by Janet Stevens

How the grinch stole Christmas  by Dr. Seuss
Sheep in a shop  by Nancy Shaw
Shrek  by William Steig
Four famished foxes by Pamela Edwards

Walter Was Worried by Laura Seeger

 



Nancy Keane has a listing of books that use alliteration:
 http://nancykeane.com/rl/266.htm
Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke

Animalia by Graeme Base
A my name is Alice by Bayer
Ogres, ogres, ogres
Aster Aardvark’s alphabet adventure by Steven Kellog

Clara Caterpillar
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes, by Margaret Atwood
Aster Aardvark's alphabet adventure- Stephen Kellogg
Some Smug Slug- Pamela Edwards

Great gorilla grins by Beth Hilgartner
Absolutely awful alphabet by Mordecai Gerstein
David Gantz wacky world of words by David Gantz
Princess Prunella and the purple peanut by Margaret Atwood


Superhero ABC by Bob McLeod. It is an alphabet book with each letter representing a
different superhero and there is an alliterative sentence describing
each heroes abilities.


Dr Seuss ABC-Zizer Zazzer Zuzz, etc.
Dawdle Duckling by Toni Buzzeo
Allison's Zinnia, Lobel, A.

A Snake is Totally Tail by Judi Barrett
Dr. Seuss's ABC
Why are there more questions than answers, Grandad (by Mahood.)
Five Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish (Obligado, Lilian.)

Chicken Little, Kellogg, S.
Dia's Story Cloth, Cha, D.
Ellsworth's Extraordinary Electric Ear..., Fisher, V.
Feathers and Fools, Fox, M

If I was in charge of the world (J. Viorst)
Alligator Arrived with Apples by Crescent
Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear, by Ken Kesey
There's An Ant in Anthony,
My Mama Had a Dancing Heart, Gray, L.
Old Cricket, Wheeler, L.
Prionce Cinders, Cole, B.
 

 


ABSOLUTELY AWFUL ALPHABET, by Mordecai Gerstein


Fosdyke by Pamela Edwards Mama
Six Sick Sheep_ by Cole, Morrow '93
Burt Dow, Deep Water Man by Robert McCloskey.
The Sun's Day
Bashful Bob and Doleful Doreen
Curry, Don L and Stromoski, Rick. Willie's word world. New York: Children's
Parker, Sandy and Hofher, Cathy. What month is it? Coralville, Iowa: Just Think
Smith, Kay and Aruego, Jose. Parakeets and peach pies. New York: Parents'

June 29, 1999 by Wiesner
Piggy in the puddle by Charlotte Pomerantz
Farrar by Steig
Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henckes

 

 

 

 

 

 

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