My Best Friend is as Sharp as a Pencil and Other Funny Classroom Portraits by Hanoch Piven

Piven, Hanoch My Best Friend is as Sharp as a Pencil and Other Funny Classroom Portraits 40 pgs. Schwartz and Wade Books, 2010. PICTURE BOOK. $17.99. What a fabulous book to teach metaphors and similes! Using ordinary and every day objects, this little girl creates classroom portraits. For example her art teacher is someone who is as mysterious as dark glasses, as artistic as a paint palette and always so colorful like her crayons...then his portrait uses all of those objects. The artwork is creative and fun. It would be fun to use this book at the beginning of the year as a classroom introduction as the kids could create their own portrait describing themselves. EL-ESSENTIAL. Whitney, Library-Teacher.