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1) Mortimer
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When a little boy insists on singing at bedtime, his family calls in the police to tell him to be quiet.
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Listen! Do you hear a sound? Noises come from all around.
Soft and gentle, loud and clear. Oh so many sounds to hear!
So Many Sounds is a wonderful rhyming read-aloud featuring everyday sounds and a refrain that children will love repeating. The playful text and illustrations are sure to delight little ones while also inviting them to pay more attention to the world around them.
10) Be quiet!
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Rupert the mouse wants to star in an artistic, wordless picturebook, but his animal friends cause problems by talking too much.
12) The listeners
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While lying in bed with her husband one night, Claire Devon hears a low hum that he cannot. Though no obvious source or cause can be determined, it begins causing her headaches, nosebleeds and insomnia, gradually upsetting the balance of her life. When she discovers that a student of hers can hear it as well, the two strike up an unlikely and intimate friendship. Feeling more and more isolated from friends, and family, they fall in with a disparate...
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"The mayor of the noisy city of La Paz institutes new laws forbidding all singing, but a brave little rooster decides he must sing, despite the progressively severe punishments he receives for continuing to crow. The silenced populace, invigorated by the rooster's bravery, ousts the tyrannical mayor and returns their city to its free and clamorous state"--Provided by publisher.
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"The mayor of the noisy city of La Paz institutes new laws forbidding all singing, but a brave little rooster decides he must sing, despite the progressively severe punishments he receives for continuing to crow. The silenced populace, invigorated by the rooster's bravery, ousts the tyrannical mayor and returns their city to its free and clamorous state"--Provided by publisher.
16) Who goes there?
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Just as Lewis the mouse is settling into his near-perfect home for the winter, still wondering what is missing, he hears noises and must roar to scare away whatever horrid creature is scratching and tapping at his tree.
17) Quiet, please!
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A young giraffe is desperate to find a quiet place to read where his noisy brothers and sisters won't find him.
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By the author of Planetwalker, The Ragged Edge of Silence takes us to another level of appreciating, through silence, the beauty of the planet and our place in it. John Francis's real and compelling prose forms a tapestry of questions and answers woven from interviews, stories, personal experience, science, and the power of silence through history, including practice by Native American, Hindu, and Buddhist cultures. Through their time-honored traditions...
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