Here are some picture books ideally suited for the older readers/ I have given you some ideas, but left a great deal blank here. Feel free to download and noodle this into something you can use.

1. They are alive and well in middle and high school classrooms Picture Books Are Not Dead

2. Christmas Classics POLAR EXPRESS DECEMBER CHRISTMAS CAROL

3. METAFICTION HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON MONSTER ORIGAMI YODA BOOK

4. PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS DICKENSIAN NAMES

5. UNEXPECTED TWISTS PREDICTION SKILLS IRONY

6. ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

7. METAFICTION, PART DEUX STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE TRAPPED IN A BOOK SEARCH FOR WONDLA

8. VIEWING AND REPRESENTING OTHERS IN SERIES WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT? OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

9. CREATING CHARACTERS

10. TEXTLESS STORIES THE ARRIVAL THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney TUESDAY

11. MORE TEXTLESS WEB SITE SEQUELS

13. SIMPLY PUT OUTSIDE NARRATORS PATTERN WRITING IMAGINATIVE PLAY

14. SO MUCH TO MINE DICTION STYLE REGIONALISM HUMOR

15. NONFICTION ILLUSTRATION EXAMINATION CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

16. ALTERNATIVES CHOOSE YOUR OWN ENDING/ADVENTURE

17. WHAT A PAIR! UNUSUAL PAIRINGS HUMOR ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

18. FAIRY RETELLINGS SCIESZKA’S THRTEE LITTLE PIGS, FROG PRINCE CONTINUED, STINKY CHEESE MAN YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN, ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

19. MORE VARIANTS

24. WHO GETS IT? HUMOR IF YOU KNOW WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

25. LANGUAGE PLAY HOMONYMS, HOMOPHONES, HOMOGRAPHS ELLA MINNOW PEA

26. RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

30. AUDIO FUN

31. RULES, RULES, RULES

76. TEACH THEME?