Stuff
Product Details
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, May 2009
Hardcover, 32 pages
ISBN-10: 1416940529
ISBN-13: 9781416940524
Grades: P - 2
Awards and Nominations
- Bank Street Best Books of the Year
Description
Dawn until dusk, the city is alive with sounds, from the TING-ALING- A-LING of an alarm clock in the morning to the BEEEEEP! BEEEEP! of traffic in the afternoon to the quiet SHHHHHHHHHHHHHH of evening. Noted illustrator Beppe Giacobbe’s bright palette and pleasing cityscapes bring the excitement of the city to life in a story that begs to be read aloud again and again.
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Browse Inside Clang! Clang! Beep! Beep!“In spare, elegant illustrations, the city is seen on many levels -- underground, street and elevated -- with the boy moving through a forest no less mysterious than the jungle room of Maurice Sendak.”
-- New York Times Book Review
The irresistible cityscapes and playful text will have young urbanites and those anticipating big city sojourns clamoring for repeat visits”
-- Booklist
“A vivid sliver of city life.”
-- Kirkus
New York Times, November 7, 2009
...exotic past, as both the turtle and the sparrow sound like echoes of the dinosaur. Take, for example, Clang! Clang! Beep! Beep!, which is about a life lived with machines and the cacophony of town, where the exclamation points fall like snow ...
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