Picture+Book+Memoirs

=These are great picture books to use when modeling memoir writing:=


 * Pictures from Our Vacation by Lynne Rae Perkins
 * Almost all of Patricia Polacco's books are memoirs.
 * All the Places To Love by Patricia Maclachlan
 * The Sea Chest by Toni Buzzeo is a story-within-a-story in which an old woman remembers her life growing up on a lighthouse island and the arrival of her baby sister in a sea chest.
 * Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory," is a wonderful story, easily available in picture book form.
 * 26 Fairmont Avenue by Tomie dePaola - really enjoyed this book myself, but my favorite picture book by him is "The Art Lesson" when he tells about his struggles to create his own artistic style in elementary school.
 * Song and Dance Man by Ackerman
 * Butterfly House by Bunting
 * So Far from the Sea by Bunting
 * Wednesday Surprise by Bunting
 * Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs DePaola
 * Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Fox
 * The Lotus Seed by Garland
 * My Mother has a Dancing Heart by Gray
 * My Great-Aunt Arizona (Biography - Hughes) by Houston
 * Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) by Howard
 * Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys by Howard
 * All the Places to Love by MacLachlan
 * Through Grandpa's Eyes by MacLachlan
 * What You Know First by MacLachlan
 * Uncle Ted's Barbershop by Mitchell
 * Betty Doll by Polacco
 * Chicken Sunday by Polacco
 * Meteor! by Polacco
 * Mrs. Katz and Tush by Polacco
 * My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother by Polacco
 * The Keeping Quilt by Polacco
 * Thunder Cake by Polacco
 * Tar Beach by Ringgold
 * The Relatives Came by Rylant
 * When I was Young in the Mountains by Rylant
 * Grandfather's Journey by Say
 * Chair for My Mother by Williams
 * The Memory Coat by Woodruff
 * Miz Berlin Walks by Yolen
 * Owl Moon by Yolen