Noisy Night
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A clever picture book about a multi-level apartment building's occupants and their many nighttime noises.
It's a noisy night in this city building! The residents of each floor can hear their neighbors above them, and are wondering what's going on above their heads. Climb floor by floor and page by page to find out whose singing, dancing, cheering, and cooing are keeping a grumpy old man awake.
With innovative split-level spreads that offer the feeling of climbing an apartment building floor by floor, this clever and colorful collaboration between New York Times–bestselling author Mac Barnett and gifted illustrator Brian Biggs offers an irresistible investigation of one noisy night.
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It's late, and no one is being very neighborly in the apartment building at the center of this unruly story. A well-matched Barnett (The Magic Word) and Biggs (Tinyville Town Gets to Work!) start on the first floor, where a kid is awakened by noise from the apartment above. "What is going la la la above my head?" the boy asks. The answer is revealed on the next spread: "A man is singing opera above my head." This pattern repeats for on each of the building's 10 floors, with disturbances at each stop ("rah rah rah" "cha cha cha"), until a cranky old man in the top apartment shuts the whole thing down with an emphatic "Go to bed!" Funky choices in color, texture, and typography lend an appropriate devil-may-care air to Biggs's spreads, and he cleverly teases each successive vignette by letting a slice of it peek through, like film caught between frames. The improbable cast which includes a sheep, pair of cowboys, and a cheerleading squad and their percussive exclamations will elicit plenty of bedtime chuckles. Ages 4 8.)
