Big City Song - Hardcover
From morning to night, the diverse sounds of the city can be heard all around as street cleaners sweep the streets, the wrecking ball takes down an old building, and rain drips from the roofs above, in a colorfully illustrated picture book about the hustle-and-bustle of big city life.
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About the Author:
Debora Pearson has worked as a librarian and editor of an award-winning children's magazine. Her many books for children include 52 Days by Camel: My Sahara Adventure, a Smithsonian Notable Book for Children; Jungle Islands: My South Sea Adventure; and Cookie Critters. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
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PreS–Fragmented text and chaotic acrylic paintings aptly convey the frenzy and cacophony of metropolitan life: Sun comes up.../Sweep! Sweep! Sweep!/Dusty little/street cleaner/swishes down/the street. Bright colors and bold print depict the rhythm of a typical day with traffic jams, construction sites, church bells, and a thunderstorm, as a host of community helpers go about their tasks. The hullabaloo diminishes a bit toward evening, but there is still lots to listen to, including ambulance sirens, dogs barking, garbage cans crashing, and the rumbling of trucks and trains. Amid this symphony of sounds, urbanites contentedly fall asleep. Characters with oval-shaped heads, large noses, and exaggerated hairdos appear alongside simply drawn vehicles and buildings, and the energetic artwork is filled with curving lines and contrasting colors. The rhymes can be a little forced, but will still be fun for reading together.–Linda Staskus, Parma Regional Library, OH (School Library Journal)
Simple, rhythmic words and bright, clear acrylic pictures celebrate the "big happy racket" of city sounds and movements, from the exciting "Clonk! Bonk! Bash!" of a demolition site to the "eeeee-o" of an ambulance. In addition to the roaring of machines, there are smaller noises--the swishing of windshield wipers in the rain, the thump of bundled newspapers landing on the street, and church bells bing-bonging slow, sad songs. As with Paul Stickland's Trucks (2005), this book will make a good read-aloud; children will want to join in and act out the pulsing images of the people that they see on the pages. Hazel Rochman
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Simple, rhythmic words and bright, clear acrylic pictures celebrate the "big happy racket" of city sounds and movements, from the exciting "Clonk! Bonk! Bash!" of a demolition site to the "eeeee-o" of an ambulance. In addition to the roaring of machines, there are smaller noises--the swishing of windshield wipers in the rain, the thump of bundled newspapers landing on the street, and church bells bing-bonging slow, sad songs. As with Paul Stickland's Trucks (2005), this book will make a good read-aloud; children will want to join in and act out the pulsing images of the people that they see on the pages. Hazel Rochman
(Booklist -Hazel Rochman)
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- PublisherHoliday House
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0823419886
- ISBN 13 9780823419883
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorRead Lynn Rowe
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