This Book is Too Quiet!: You add the noise…
by Cristina Cubells, Joana Casals (illustrator)

5 out of 5 stars

In this book about sounds, the reader has to add all the sound effects! We visit a busy kitchen where cooks are whisking and popping corks and slurping spaghetti. A plate breaks, the water faucet gushes, and the reader has to create all the sounds!
We make sounds for rainstorms, fireworks, insects, and animals. But some of the sounds have to come from our own imagination. What would a fantastical cloud factory sound like? What would sound be like in outer space?

I thought it was really interesting that some of the pages have a word description of a sound, but some pages just have a picture of a sound byte. You can see a warbling line that goes up and down for the whine of a gnat. Or quick dots of sound to show a rabbit hopping along. I love that the reader is encouraged to imagine new ways to create these sounds!

The illustrations are colorful and bright, and I loved that each page is full of many things to look for in the background of each scene and many sounds to try out. The art style is really vibrant!

Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a free and honest review.