MARIEMONT ELEMENTARY LIBRARY

Handbook or Guide Text - These texts, which aren't really intended as real handbooks or guides, use this familiar structure to tell a story or present information.  The texts have sections of explanations, lists of advice, diagrams on how to do things, and so forth, just as a real handbook or guide would, but they are actually parodies of that genre, using it to achieve some other purpose (Wondrous Words by Katie Wood Ray).

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Cock-a-Doodle-Doo! by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel

Little Pigs' Puppet Book, The by N. Cameron Watson

Tomorrow on Rocky Pond by Lynn Reiser