I met Deborah Underwood this summer
and heard her talk about the inspiration behind
“The Quiet Book”
and I’m so glad that there’s this fun companion book!
Title: The Loud Book!
Published by: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, 2011
Written by: Deborah Underwood
Illustrated by: Renata Liwska
In one word: LOUD!
In one sentence: Come along and discover how many kinds of loud there really are!
Favorite pages:
Likes:
- the illustrations are very sweet
- the story is conveyed through the illustrations a lot too.
- the “louds” are like a list, but are also related and in a great order
- the “louds” are so right on!
- this book is bound to start conversation!
- the size of the book is small compared to other picture books, but it works perfectly.
Learns:
- You can have a “list” type book that is also a story..this one pulls it off!
- Books that spark a conversation are bound to be the ones that we return to over and over again.
- All this from one word: Loud! So there’s really no excuse for NOT being able to come up with ideas, right? This just gives me a fresh look on where I can look for ideas…sometimes no farther than a word!
Let’s check out that bookshelf:
We’re at the halfway point!
Ok, so we’re going to 31 so not EXACTLY half, but I’m counting it.
How’s everyone doing?
Still enjoying reading a picture book every day?
I know I am!
Have you read this book?
And what did you read today?
We’re still enthusiastically yours,
Kathy Ellen and Singe Singe
I am a HUGE fan of THE QUIET BOOK, but thank you for sharing THE LOUD BOOK. I look forward to checking it out. Love those cute little animal illustrations.
Today I read ME WANT PET by Tammi Sauer, illustrations by Bob Shea. Such a fun book. And simple. Bob Shea has evoked a hand-drawn cave drawing quality to the pictures. And Tammi certainly grasps the caveman voice. 🙂 Cave Boy attempts 3 times to get a pet but his family dissaproves of his choices eat time, until a stampede changes everything.
I especially like the ending which mirrors the beginning in language and rhythm. Its a true bookended piece.
Check it out.
Kathy,what an exciting life you are leading! I love that you are meeting so many authors. This looks like a fun book…isn’t it amazing how many popular picture books don’t follow the “rules” of the perfect picture book. 🙂
Today I read “Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site” by Sherri Duskey Rinker and Tom Lichtenheld. I read it because I am working on a rhyming picture book and trying to stay in meter while also trying not to break any of the ‘rules’ of writing rhyming picture books. 🙂 I wanted to see how someone else did it. First of all, I loved the story..lovely rhyme that kids will pick up and say themselves. GREAT illustrations…each truck has a face and personality. 🙂 But as far as the meter…hmmm…definitely not the same throughout. Which doesn’t change my feeling that this is a great picture book. It kind of makes me feel a little better about the pb I am working on. 🙂
I’ve heard about both “The Quiet Book” and “The Loud Book” but haven’t yet read them. Sounds as if I need to rectify that. (and my verbs in both those sentences were — I promise — unintentionally sound choices!)
Today I re-read my cousin Beverley Brenna’s picture book “Daddy Longlegs at Birch Lane”, illustrated in lifelike detail by Sandra Blair. This is a Smithsonian’s Backyard book, and as such, is carefully written to present facts about Daddy Longlegs spiders in the form of a story. I think Bev did this well (she’s a bit of a spider aficionado, and this isn’t her only book that features spiders…) It follows the development of a female “Harvester” Daddy Longlegs from her being the only egg to survive an ant attack through the year and its perils and triumphs to the fall when she will lay her own eggs and continue the cycle. I think kids who have a scientific bent or a particular interest in bugs would find this a good read both because of the detailed description of the life of the spider, and because of the story.
I love THE LOUD BOOK and THE QUIET BOOK, too! I heard there is a Christmas Quiet book coming out which made me want to yell and dance, but that would be loud . . . so I sat quietly and smiled. (Okay, I lied. I danced and yelled, too, and showed Aaron. But I’ll *probably* read it quietly when it comes out.)
When I read your post, it made me want to re-read THE LOUD BOOK. So that’s what I did during lunch. (Well, part of lunch. Thankfully it doesn’t take me a whole hour to read a picture book. Usually.)
I don’t think I have ever read THE LOUD BOOK and THE QUIET BOOK, yet I have heard quite a bit about them.
Tonight, we read HENRY IN LOVE by Peter McCarty. Tomorrow is McCarty’s birthday and we have been reading his books for almost two weeks to celebrate. I saved this one for last because I was able to meet McCarty this past summer and he drew an doodle for each of my kids inside the book.
I read “Up and Down” by Oliver Jeffers, one of my favorite pb author/illustrators. I just noticed after rereading that this story has no dialog, only telling! Anyway, I just love the boy and penguin, also in Jeffer’s other books.
How neat you met Deborah Underwood. I’m assuming at the same famous bookstore? I have seen her books. Gorgeous!
Hi Kathy!
Okay, maybe everyone can sense a theme going on here with the books I am currently reading? Today’s book is called On Halloween Night by Ferida Wolff and Dolores Kozielski. It was illustrated by Dolores Avendano. This counting rhyming book is perfect for a chilly fall evening as author Ferida Wolff describes all the creatures of the forest and what they are doing on Halloween night. I love the illustrations although I am wondering why two very small children are walking through the woods in the middle of the night all by themselves and coming across all those wild, dangerous animals…;~)
Donna L Martin
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