I put together a list of books geared towards the younger grades (elementary to perhaps middle school). They are first broken down by category and, at the end, there is a master list of all the books. We have read some, but not all, so please know that I'm unsure of the content and/or quality of many of them. I've very excited though to have found some new gems and even my older boys (ages 13 and 12) will have some books to study!
Grammar Books for the Younger Years
Adjectives
Grammar Ray: A Graphic Guide
to Grammar - Adjectives – Andrew Carter
Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What
is an Adjective? – Brian P. Cleary
If You Were an Adjective –
Michael Dahl
Many Luscious Lollipops: A Book About Adjectives – Ruth Heller
Quirky, Jerky, Extra Perky:
More About Adjectives – Brian P. Cleary
The Bug Book (Adjectives) –
Maria Fleming
Adverbs
Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely:
What is an Adverb? – Brian P. Cleary
Grammar Ray: A Graphic Guide
to Grammar - Adverbs – Andrew Carter
If You Were an Adverb –
Michael Dahl
Lazily, Crazily, Just a Bit
Nasally: More About Adverbs – Brian P. Cleary
Suddenly Alligator: Adventures in Adverbs – Rick Walton
Tillie’s Tuba (Adverbs) –
Maria Fleming
Up, Up and Away: A Book about
Adverbs – Ruth Heller
Alliteration
Dr. Suess’ ABCs
Four Famished Foxes and
Fosdyke – Pamela Duncan Edwards
If You Were Alliteration –
Trisha Speed Shaskan
Little Book of Alliterations
– Felix Archer
Some Smug Slug – Pamela
Duncan Edwards
Superhero ABC – Bob McLeod
The Big Book of Absolutely
Animalistic Alliterations – Anna Childs
Comparatives/Superlatives
Alphabest: The Zany, Zanier,
Zaniest Book About Comparatives and Superlatives – Helaine Becker
Breezier, Cheesier, Newest,
and Bluest: What are Comparatives and
Superlatives? – Brian P. Cleary
Pig, Pigger, Piggest: Adventures in Comparing – Rick Walton
Compound Words
If You Were a Compound Word –
Trisha Speed Shaskan
Once There Was a
Bull…(frog): Adventures in Compound
Words – Rick Walton
Thumbtacks, Earwax, Lipstick,
Dipstick: What is a Compound Word? – Brian P. Cleary
Conjunctions
But and For, Yet and Nor:
What is a Conjunction – Brian P. Cleary
Fantastic! Wow! And
Unreal!: A Book About Interjections and
Conjunctions – Ruth Heller
If You Were a Conjunction –
Nancy Loewen
Just Me and & 6,000 Rats:
A Tale of Conjunctions – Rick Walton
Contractions
I’m and Won’t, They’re and
Don’t: What’s a Contraction? – Brian P. Cleary
If You Were a Contraction –
Trisha Speed Shaskan
Karate Contractions (Grammar
All-Stars)– Gail Herman
Homophone/Homonym
Dear Deer: A Book of
Homophones – Gene Barretta
Eight Ate: A Feast of Homonym
Riddles – Marvin Terban
How Much Can a Bare Bear
Bear? What are Homonyms and Homophones? – Brian P. Cleary
If You Were a Homonym or a
Homophone – Nancy Loewen
Idioms
Even More Parts (Idioms) –
Tedd Arnold
In a Pickle: and Other Funny
Idioms – Marvin Terban
It Figure!: Fun Figures of
Speech – Marvin Terban
Mad as a Wet Hen: And Other
Funny Idioms – Marvin Terban
More Parts (Idioms) – Tedd
Arnold
Parts (Idioms) – Tedd Arnold
Punching the Clock: Funny
Action Idioms – Marvin Terban
Scholastic Dictionary of
Idioms – Marvin Terban
Interjections
Cool! Whoa!
Ah and Oh!: What is an Interjection? – Brian P. Cleary
Fantastic! Wow! And Unreal!: A Book About Interjections and Conjunctions –
Ruth Heller
If You Were an Interjection –
Nancy Loewen
Metaphor/Simile
Crazy Like a Fox: A Simile
Story – Loreen Leedy
It Figures!: Fun Figures of
Speech – Marvin Terban
Similes and Metaphors
(Language Rules!) – Ann Heinrichs
Skin Like Milk, Hair of Silk:
What are Similes and Metaphors? – Brian P. Cleary
Stubborn as a Mule and Other
Silly Similes – Nancy Jean Loewen
You’re Toast and Other
Metaphors We Adore – Nancy Jean Loewen
Nouns
A Cache of Jewels and other
Collective Nouns – Ruth Heller
A Lime, a Mime, a Pool of
Slime: More About Nouns – Brian P. Cleary
A Mink, a Fink, a Skating
Rink: What is a Noun? – Brian P. Cleary
A Zeal of Zebras: An Alphabet
of Collective Nouns – Woop Studios
Chicken in the City (Nouns) –
Liza Charlesworth
Grammar Ray: A Graphic Guide
to Grammar – Nouns & Pronouns – Andrew Carter
Herd of Cows, Flock of
Sheep: Adventures in Collective Nouns –
Rick Walton
If You Were a Noun – Micheal
Dahl
Merry-Go-Round: A Book About
Nouns – Ruth Heller
Nouns and Verbs Have a Field
Day – Robin Pulver
Onomatopoeia
If You Were Onomatopoeia –
Trisha Speed Shaskan
Palindrome
Go Hang a Salami! I’m a Lasagna Hog! And other Palindromes –
Jon Agee
Madam and Nun and 1001: What
is a Palindrome? – Brian P. Cleary
Plurals
Feet and Puppies, Thieves and
Guppies: What are Irregular Plurals? – Brian P. Cleary
If You Were a Plural Word –
Trisha Speed Shaskan
Prefix/Suffix
Happy Endings: A Story About
Suffixes – Robin Pulver
If You Were a Prefix – Marcie
Aboff
If You Were a Suffix – Marcie
Aboff
Pre- and Re-, and Mis- and
Dis: What is a Prefix? – Brian P. Cleary
Prepositions
Around the House the Fox
Chased the Mouse: Adventures in
Prepositions – Rick Walton
Behind the Mask: A Book About Prepositions – Ruth Heller
Grammar Ray: A Graphic Guide
to Grammar – Prepositions – Andrew Carter
If You Were a Prepostion –
Nancy Loewen
Under, Over, by the Clover:
What is a Preposition? – Brian P. Cleary
Pronouns
Grammar Ray: A Graphic Guide
to Grammar – Nouns & Pronouns – Andrew Carter
I and You and Don’t Forget
Who: What is a Pronoun? – Brian P. Cleary
If You Were a Pronoun- Nancy
Loewen
Mine, All Mine! A Book About
Pronouns – Ruth Heller
The Planet Without Pronouns –
Justin Martin
Punctuation
Alfie the Apostrophe – Moira
Rose Dononhue
Eats, Shoots & Leaves:
Why, Commas Really Do Matter – Lynne Truss
Grammar Ray: A Graphic Guide
to Grammar – Punctuation & Sentences – Andrew Carter
Greedy Apostrophe: A
Cautionary Tale – Jan Carr
If You Were a Comma – Molly
Blaisdell
If You Were a Period –
Nicholas Healy
If You Were a Question Mark –
Shelly Lyons
If You Were an Apostrophe –
Shelly Lyons
If You Were an Exclamation
Point – Shelly Lyons
If You Were Quotation Marks –
Molly Blaisdell
Punctuation Takes a Vacation
– Robin Pulver
The Girl’s Like Spaghetti:
Why, You Can’t Manage Without Apostrophes! – Lynne Truss
The Mystery of the Missing
Socks (quotation marks) – Justin McCory Martin
Twenty-Odd Ducks: Why, Every
Punctuation Mark Counts! – Lynne Truss
When Comma Came to Town – Samantha
Berger
Synonym/Antonym
If You Were a Synonym –
Michael Dahl
If You Were an Antonym –
Nancy Loewen
Pitch and Throw, Grasp and
Know: What is a Synonym? – Brian P. Cleary
Stop and Go, Yes and No: What
is an Antonym? – Brian P. Cleary
Straight and Curvy, Meek and
Nervy: More About Antonyms– Brian P. Cleary
Stroll and Walk, Babble and
Talk: More About Synonyms – Brian P. Cleary
Verbs
A Verb for Herb – Maria
Fleming
Bullfrog Pops!: Adventures in
Verbs and Direct Objects – Rick Walton
Grammar Ray: A Graphic Guide
to Grammar - Verbs – Andrew Carter
If You Were a Verb – Michael
Dahl
Kites Sail High: A Book About Verbs – Ruth Heller
Nouns and Verbs Have a Field
Day – Robin Pulver
Slide and Slurp, Scratch and
Burp: More About Verbs – Brian P. Cleary
To Root, to Toot, to
Parachute: What is a Verb? – Brian P. Cleary
Books Covering Multiple Parts of Speech
Basher Basics: Grammar –
Simon Basher and Mary Budzik
Grammar Made Fun: Learning
Parts of Speech with Silly Poems that Teacg – Ponn Sabra
Grammarland – M. L. Nesbitt
Mad Libs
Painless Grammar: Barron’s
Painless Junior – Marciann McClarnon
Schoolhouse Rock!
Super Grammar – Tony Preciado
and Rhode Montijo
Words are Fun – Michael Dahl
(noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, conjunction, interjection, preposition
– each is also available individually)
Misc
E-mergency – Tom Lichtenheld
Francine Fribble,
Proofreading Policewoman – Justin Martin
If You Were a Capital Letter
– Trisha Speed Shaskan
Silent Letters Loud and Clear
– Robin Pulver
The Mega-Deluxe Capitalization
Machine – Justin Martin
The No-Good, Rotten, Run-on
Sentence – Liza Charlesworth
All the books in alphabetical order:
A Zeal of Zebras: An Alphabet
of Collective Nouns – Woop Studios
Alfie the Apostrophe – Moira
Rose Dononhue
Alphabest: The Zany, Zanier,
Zaniest Book About Comparatives and Superlatives – Helaine Becker
Basher Basics: Grammar –
Simon Basher and Mary Budzik
Crazy Like a Fox: A Simile
Story – Loreen Leedy
Dear Deer: A Book of
Homophones – Gene Barretta
Dr. Suess’ ABCs
E-mergency – Tom Lichtenheld
Eats, Shoots & Leaves:
Why, Commas Really Do Matter – Lynne Truss
Eight Ate: A Feast of Homonym
Riddles – Marvin Terban
Even More Parts (Idioms) –
Tedd Arnold
Four Famished Foxes and
Fosdyke – Pamela Duncan Edwards
Go Hang a Salami! I’m a Lasagna Hog! And other Palindromes –
Jon Agee
Grammar Made Fun: Learning
Parts of Speech with Silly Poems that Teach – Ponn Sabra
Grammar Ray: A Graphic Guide
to Grammar series – Andrew Carter
Adverbs
Verbs
Adjectives
Nouns & Pronouns
Punctuation and Sentences
Prepositions
Grammar Tales series
The No-Good, Rotten, Run-on Sentence – Liza Charlesworth
When Comma Came to Town – Samantha Berger
The Mystery of the Missing Socks (quotation marks) –
Justin McCory Martin
Francine Fribble, Proofreading Policewoman – Justin
Martin
The Planet Without Pronouns – Justin Martin
Chicken in the City (Nouns) – Liza Charlesworth
The Bug Book (Adjectives) – Maria Fleming
A Verb for Herb – Maria Fleming
Tillie’s Tuba (Adverbs) – Maria Fleming
The Mega-Deluxe Capitalization Machine – Justin Martin
Grammarland – M. L. Nesbitt
Greedy Apostrophe: A
Cautionary Tale – Jan Carr
Happy Endings: A Story About
Suffixes – Robin Pulver
In a Pickle: and Other Funny
Idioms – Marvin Terban
It Figure!: Fun Figures of
Speech – Marvin Terban
Karate Contractions (Grammar
All-Stars)– Gail Herman
Language Adventure series –
Rick Walton
Bullfrog
Pops!: Adventures in Verbs and Direct Objects
Suddenly
Alligator: Adventures in Adverbs
Pig,
Pigger, Piggest: Adventures in Comparing
Around
the House the Fox Chased the Mouse:
Adventures in Prepositions
Just
Me and & 6,000 Rats: A Tale of Conjunctions
Herd
of Cows, Flock of Sheep: Adventures in
Collective Nouns
Once
There Was a Bull…(frog): Adventures in
Compound Words
Little Book of Alliterations
– Felix Archer
Mad as a Wet Hen: And Other
Funny Idioms – Marvin Terban
More Parts (Idioms) – Tedd
Arnold
Nouns and Verbs Have a Field
Day – Robin Pulver
Painless Grammar: Barron’s
Painless Junior – Marciann McClarnon
Parts (Idioms) – Tedd Arnold
Punching the Clock: Funny
Action Idioms – Marvin Terban
Punctuation Takes a Vacation
– Robin Pulver
Scholastic Dictionary of
Idioms – Marvin Terban
Schoolhouse Rock!
Silent Letters Loud and Clear
– Robin Pulver
Some Smug Slug – Pamela
Duncan Edwards
Stubborn as a Mule and Other
Silly Similes – Nancy Jean Loewen
Super Grammar – Tony Preciado
and Rhode Montijo
Superhero ABC – Bob McLeod
The Big Book of Absolutely
Animalistic Alliterations – Anna Childs
The Girl’s Like Spaghetti:
Why, You Can’t Manage Without Apostrophes! – Lynne Truss
Twenty-Odd Ducks: Why, Every
Punctuation Mark Counts! – Lynne Truss
You’re Toast and Other
Metaphors We Adore – Nancy Jean Loewen
Word Fun – Michael Dahl
Combined
book of noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, conjunction, interjection,
preposition
Other
books in series….If You Were A….prefix, suffix, synonym, homonym or homophone,
contraction, quotation marks, comma, compound word, antonym, period,
apostrophe, capital letter, plural word, question mark, exclamation point,
onomatepoeia
Words are Categorical series
– Brian P. Cleary
Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What is an Adverb?
Under, Over, by the Clover: What is a Preposition?
Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What is an Adjective?
I’m and Won’t, They’re and Don’t: What’s a Contraction?
Skin Like Milk, Hair of Silk: What are Similes and
Metaphors?
To Root, to Toot, to Parachute: What is a Verb?
I and You and Don’t Forget Who: What is a Pronoun?
A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What is a Noun?
How Much Can a Bare Bear Bear? What are Homonyms and
Homophones?
Slide and Slurp, Scratch and Burp: More About Verbs
But and For, Yet and Nor: What is a Conjunction
Quirky, Jerky, Extra Perky: More About Adjectives
Lazily, Crazily, Just a Bit Nasally: More About Adverbs
Pitch and Throw, Grasp and Know: What is a Synonym?
Feet and Puppies, Thieves and Guppies: What are Irregular
Plurals?
Cool! Whoa! Ah and Oh!: What is an Interjection?
Stop and Go, Yes and No: What is an Antonym?
A Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime: More About Nouns
Stroll and Walk, Babble and Talk: More About Synonyms
Straight and Curvy, Meek and Nervy: More About Antonyms
Breezier,
Cheesier, Newest, and Bluest: What are
Comparatives and Superlatives?
Thumbtacks, Earwax, Lipstick, Dipstick: What is a
Compound Word?
Madam and Nun and 1001: What is a Palindrome?
Pre- and Re-, and Mis- and Dis: What is a Prefix?
World of Language series –
Ruth Heller
Behind the Mask: A
Book About Prepositions
Many Luscious Lollipops:
A Book About Adjectives
A Cache of Jewels and other Collective Nouns
Kites Sail High: A
Book About Verbs
Merry-Go-Round: A Book About Nouns
Fantastic! Wow! And Unreal!: A Book About Interjections and Conjunctions
Up, Up and Away: A Book about Adverbs
Mine, All Mine! A Book About Pronouns
