Crunch and Crack, Oink and Whack!
An Onomatopoeia Story

Great picture book for the Kinder through third grade reader. Clark’s book has brightly colored, engaging illustrations by Pablo Pina that will keep the attention of young readers/listeners as the rhyming text teaches the figurative language device of onomatopoeia. Kids will enjoy making the noises......more

Brian P. Cleary has written such wonderful books about all types of writing and parts of speech, not to mention, just fun poetry. This is another wonderful example. Students love learning about and then using onomatopoeia in their writing but they usually tend to use some of the same words over and......more

This is a clever and well-crafted picture book to introduce the concept of onomatopoeia to young kids. In particular kids, in the early grades will be inspired to explore their own environments to see what crunches, cracks, oinks and whacks. I thoroughly enjoyed the adventure as an adult so I am sur......more