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Summary
A fresh, urban take on bedtime stories in the spirit of The House That Jack Built and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, from debut author Anne Wynter and Caldecott Honoree Oge Mora.
Everybody in the red brick building was asleep. Until . . .
WaaaAAH!
Rraak! Wake up!
Pitter patter STOMP!
Pssheew!
A chain reaction of noises wakes up several children (and a cat) living in an apartment building. But it's late in the night, so despite the disturbances, one by one, the building's inhabitants return to their beds--this time with a new set of sounds to lull them to sleep.
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Lush collages in jewel tones by Caldecott Honoree Mora illuminate the story of a restless night in a city apartment building whose inhabitants represent many ethnicities, skin tones, and family structures. Everyone's asleep when Baby Izzie wakes up and cries--the child's "WaaaAAH!" is shown in a big speech balloon, and a magenta splash testifies to its volume. It wakes Rayhan, a neighbor who checks on his parrot. The bird's "RraaK! WAKE UP!" rouses three kids in sleeping bags, whose game of flashlight tag disturbs another neighbor--and so it goes, the mishaps and their soundtrack piling up like "The House that Jack Built." When the climactic racket is finally stilled, Mora shows the apartment dwellers settling down again, now lulled by the build of softer noises: the "shhhh shhhh" of the street sweeper, the "plonk plonk" of falling acorns, and more. Simple shapes and comforting interior scenes signal security, while brilliant colors--the red brick building's fuchsia doorway, the dimensional dark blue of the night sky--convey warmth. In this lulling story by debut author Wynter, readers watch a group of people confront the same common communal experience--and overcome it. Ages 4--8. (Oct.)
Booklist Review
Sounds rise to a crescendo and then descend into quiet in this rollicking roller coaster of a book. Like "The House That Jack Built," this is a cumulative tale, but the lines that repeat on each page are about noises, not objects. The setting is a three-story red-brick building. It's night, rendered in thick, Van Gogh--like blue-black swoops. A baby wakes up with a "WaaaAAH!" The cry causes a parrot to let out a "RraaK! Wake up!" Three boys having a sleepover, now wide awake, pitter-patter and stomp around. A girl releases her rocket out the window ("Pssheew!"). A cat asleep in a window box leaps onto a police car, setting off its screaming siren. Caldecott Honor Book author-illustrator Mora uses her trademark collage illustrations to spectacular effect, with rising and falling lettering mimicking sounds, along with lots of yellow bands of light and moving characters that heighten interest. The peak of the cacophony is reached with all the noises shown and all the lights on in the house, until the adults start quieting the baby, the boys, the rocket girl--and the sounds subside to small ones, ending with the baby listening to the pah-poom pah-poom pah-poom of the mother's heart. A sound-evocative tour de force.