cover image City Sounds

City Sounds

Craig Brown. Greenwillow Books, $14 (1pp) ISBN 978-0-688-10028-5

This energetic read-aloud features a day-tripping farmer who, on a jaunt to the city, encounters a symphony of sounds--from tugboat horns and train whistles to sirens and jackhammers, and finally the ``peep peep peep'' of the baby chicks that are waiting for him at the post office. Young audiences will have great fun mimicking the various sounds that the farmer hears as they watch his progress through the city unfold with each turn of the page. Brown's ( The Patchwork Farmer ) subtle, pointillistic artwork is complemented by a clean-as-a-whistle layout and becoming typeface. Together with the boisterously noisy story, these well-thought-out elements produce a winner for the preschool crowd. Ages 3-up. (Aug.)