What Sound Is Morning?
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
This beautiful companion to What Color Is Night? helps children explore and celebrate their morning routines.
At the first morning light, everything is quiet. Or is it?
Listen.
Welcome the day by exploring the subtle wonders—and exciting sounds—of the morning with this lyrical and picturesque story.
In the first morning light, all might seem quiet. In this companion to What Color Is Night? Grant Snider explores the sounds—and silences—of morning. Ending in an inspiring call to action—to toss off the covers, throw open the window, and fill the world with your song—this uplifting book is sure to help families feel ready to face the day. With bright art as exuberant as the rooster's crow, and humorous text celebrating the chipper alarm, the rumbling stomach, and the clanking garbage truck, What Sound Is Morning? is a moving and timeless look at the way each of us begins every day.
• A perfect book to help children establish healthy sleeping and waking habits and morning routines
• A morning read-aloud book! Help start the day right with this exuberant and positive tale.
• Grant Snider, the creator of Incidental Comics, has over 35,000 fans on Instagram.
For fans of lyrical, beautiful picture books like Today, Good Morning, City, and Before Morning, What Sound Is Morning will appeal to children who wish to see their world from a new perspective.
• Books for kids ages 3–5
• Read-aloud picture book
• Educational concepts for children
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this standalone follow-on to What Color Is Night?, a narrator invokes early morning sounds as the world begins to stir. Economical sentences draw attention to noises that are easy to overlook: "Lights click on,/ a cat softly creeps" reads one spread as dawn reddens the sky above houses shrouded in darkness. Snider's spreads, splashed with brilliant, milky hues on matte paper, have the feel of silkscreen images. As "the silent sun rises," loose lines pick out trees and soft human silhouettes, taillights on cars and trucks, a cityscape. One page zooms in on a single household ("A shower trickles,/ a mirror squeaks"); another lends appreciation to a garbage truck on a silent block. Throughout, scenes portray beauty in even the most banal examples of a built environment, such as anonymous, office-like buildings whose windows reflect the sky and whose lawn blooms with flowerlike jets: "Sprinklers hiss on summer lawns." Concluding with an invitation to "throw open the window// and fill the world with your song," Snider's creation uncovers everyday wonders by re-creating a single sense with language, form, and color. Ages 2 4.
