My Best Friend Is As Sharp As a Pencil: And Other Funny Classroom Portraits

Using in classroom

The text and illustrations are engaging for kids. The author uses similes on each page, which makes it a fun read for kids!

Use this book every year as a getting to know you activity! We make digital simile characters to share with our class!

Arrived quickly and was in great condition. The book is completely charming!

My students loved this book and created their own portraits of their teachers/friends and wrote similes to go with.

Piven’s first book was creative, humorous and very engaging for my first graders. Second book was subpar compared to first.

This book is great for teaching similes and teaching children to incorporate figurative language into thier writing.It also has great images that can be used to promote oral language across many grade levels.

I ordered two of Hanoch Piven's art books after I saw an exhibit of his work. Fair price and fast delivery from Amazon! Wonderful illustrations with found objects and collage.

This is a great book to use for teaching similes. It leads to a a neat art project as well.