Buzz! Boom! Bang! The Book of Sounds by Benjamin Gottwald

It's Saturday, and that's an ideal day for some fun. Today's read should be perfect for exactly that.

 

BUZZ! BOOM! BANG!

The Book of Sounds

by Benjamin Gottwald

NorthSouth Books

Picture Book

168 pages

ages 4 and up

COMING... 

SEPTEMBER 30th!!!

A brand-new kind of interactive picture book invites you to make the sounds you see—and inspires endless fun.

This wordless picture book is meant to be read aLOUD!

Can you bang and boom,
caw and crash,
buzz and blub,
pitter-patter and pffffft?

Will you whoosh, yawn, moo or roar? It’s easy!

1. Open the book.
2. Make the sound that you see.
3. Giggle, turn the page, repeat.

With bold colors, zany illustrations, and no words at all, Buzz! Boom! Bang! inspires a whole new kind of reading experience.

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No words but tons of creativity and fun make this a read to enjoy from beginning to end before flipping back to the beginning to start again.

Outside from the simple directions on how to use the book on the very first pages, there aren't any words in this read. But this is, by no means, a quiet book. Every page invites listeners/readers to create their own noises to fit each scene. Bright and bold illustrations hold clear actions, happenings, and more to show what sound should be made. For example, there's a sheep in a green pasture with its mouth wide open. What sound does that make? Well, that's where the listeners/readers come in.

While the first illustrations portray scenes, where most readers will make about the same noises, as the book progresses, so do the possibilities. For example, one image portrays a paper airplane in flight. Some of the two-page spreads even hold clever connections between the portrayed image on either side. For example, a pig jumping on a trampoline and the pig falling off and landing on the ground. While there are over 160 pages in this book, it goes by quickly and will hold the attention of even reluctant listeners as they make one noise after the other and compare theirs to those from the listeners around them.

Not only is this a fun read thanks to the huge variety of noises and sounds listeners will make...and of course, it gets everyone involved...but it's also illustrates how people can see something a little differently. Listeners will not only giggle and laugh the entire way through but compare noises and consider the differences without even realizing the importance of this task. 

It's a lovely addition to classroom settings, group exercises, or even just for a little fun.