Wonderful book for discussing loud and soft sounds

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	• Too Much Noise (Sandpiper Books) Ann McGovern Houghton Mifflin, 1992 - 48 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Thanks for bringing back some memories

My mom was so happy to get this. She used to read it to us as kids.

Wonderful book for discussing loud and soft sounds

As an elementary music teacher, I have found that Too Much Noise is an excellent story to read in music class when discussing dynamics (louds and softs) to first graders. After learning sound effects, i.e. "creaking","squeaking", "swish", "hiss" and animal noises, my students get swept up in the gradual crescendo of the story. The sudden quiet effect that occurs in the room when all the animals leave the old man's house is breath-taking and mesmerizing to the children. One can literally hear a pin drop. Such is the power of great story-telling!

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great classic

Great classic story, wonderful illustrations and story line. Wish I could have this in a board book format. My 9 month old loves the "swoosh swoosh" noises!

My Favorite Book

This was my favorite book when I was little. I made my mother read it to me at least one hundred times a day. Now that I have children of my own, I want to share it with them. My 3 year old son knows most of the book by heart now. I look forward to cuddling up with my children every night before bed to read this story together.

Guided my career choice!

I was a substitute librarian, and was thrust into a storytime. The librarian handed me this boook and said it was a great ice breaker. I read it to the class, and it's true! This book practically tells itself - and the kids loved making the animals sounds with me. Well, I decided I was having so much fun, I shifted gears and became a children's librarian, and used this book a LOT! Not only fun with the various animals, but good vocabulary (hissed, swished, etc.) and the children really do get to know new words and also know instinctively what they mean. I cannot praise it highly enough - bought it for both my nephews!

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Peter goes off to the village wise man to find out what he could do about his noisy house. It seemed like a simple enough problem at the beginning, but more and more complications set in?in the forms of a donkey, a sheep, and a cow, to name a few, until it looked as though an entire farm had come to life right there in Peter's house!

But with the proper, if overwhelming, application of true folk wisdom, the trouble was ended. Peter's house was finally quiet.

Or was it?

"This is a funny book, a very funny book."?Publishers Weekly
"The too-crowded house of a familiar old tale becomes a too noisy house in this entertaining picture-book story."?Booklist

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