Sullivan, Who Is Always Too Loud
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A little boy with a VERY BIG VOICE, learns the perfect (and not so perfect) times to use it in Micol Ostow's uproarious picture book Sullivan, Who Is Always Too Loud, featuring brilliant illustrations by Brian Biggs.
Sullivan is a little boy with a BIG VOICE. He tries to be quiet, but the words just bubble up, and he has to let them out. He wakes Ella-baby. Mama can't hear herself think. And Teacher can't hear the drums over Sullivan's crashing cymbals.
He tries hard and eventually finds there are perfect times to be quiet, but more importantly perfect times to be LOUD.
With energetic text and bright, bold illustrations from Brian Biggs, Sullivan is sure to bring a ton of joy (and a bit of noise) to story time.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Redheaded, freckled Sullivan is struggling to self-regulate, and it all comes out ("Not just sometimes. Not just often") in his voice. When he says "hello," bright, huge capital letters spill off the page, and Biggs (The Space Walk) draws Sullivan with his mouth hinged open so wide that readers see the back of his throat. Sullivan's patient mother applauds his efforts to tone it down, for example by taping multiple pillows around his mouth ("It's a start" becomes the book's refrain), but as Ostow (the Louise Trapeze series) has her protagonist explain, "I have loudness. In my body. Bubbling up. Always," and readers can see it's literally true: Sullivan's cheeks fill up with green, gassy-looking bubbles until he simply can't contain them. But a tip from Mama ("Have you tried counting one, two, three?") seems to help some at school, and Sullivan learns that, used judiciously, a loud voice can be an asset. Though a scene in which Sullivan is praised for shouting at another child may not sit well with sensitive readers, this book should be a boon for often-misunderstood exuberant children while modeling compassionate behavior for the adults who love them. Ages 4 8.
