Noisy City Day [Board book]

Sara Anderson (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 2 and up | Grade Level: P and up

This oversized board book traces a city across the span of a day -- filled with the people, traffic, parks, streets, stores, and buildings that make up the town. The breadth of the urban experience may all be found here: from the bicyclist lazily gliding through the park to the raucous swooshhhhh of traffic; from the clanging crash of construction work to the quiet of a sweeping streetscape as seen from a high-floor apartment building.
Vibrant colors that zing with the heat rising from a steaming sidewalk are perfectly matched to a syncopated, sound-filled, chant-again-and-again text. Ingeniously die-cut pages reinforce the experience of the city skyline in a stylish book that represents a tour-de-force performance by Sara Anderson.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Sara Anderson is a versatile designer and children s illustrator. Alongside her work on children s books, she has also designed fabric, ceramics, and furniture for clients as diverse as MoMA and Crate and Barrel from her studio in Seattle. Her previous boo

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 2 and up
  
• Board book: 6 pages
• Publisher: Handprint Books (February 24, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159354054X
• ISBN-13: 978-1593540548
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 8.7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,420,119 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Modern and hip cutout book, August 31, 2006

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Julie CHLA (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Noisy City Day (Board book)

My 20 month old child really enjoys this book. The pictures are bold and bright with plenty of her favorite things to name - "Woof woof"/"doggie" and "big truck!" The text has lots of sound effects that she likes to imitate and join in on when she hears me start to recite them like "cars and trucks go ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM." The graphics are modern and funky, with edgy "layered" cutout pages on top that form a city skyline. I appreciate too that it's a little more representative of our life in a city than some of her other books. I love her books with farm animals, but it's nice to include some books that reflect her everyday world a little bit too.

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun for a child in the big city., May 31, 2009

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peanut (Pittsburgh, Pa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Noisy City Day (Board book)

This book is definitely aimed at kids who live in BIG cities. It's great to have a picture book that focuses on daily city life as opposed to farm, etc. We live in a not-so-BIG-city and it's still applicable and fun to read, though we don't have cookouts on rooftops or play Frisbee amongst skyscrapers. The book is cut and layered in a really cool way, which makes it fun for kids (and adults).
I'm not crazy about the text, though and the pictures are a little wonky. My baby is currently 14 months old and she sometimes has a hard time distinguishing the ball from the Frisbee in the park and pointing out some of the details in the pictures.

4.0 out of 5 stars For the little ones living in the city, March 20, 2009

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SouthFloridaGirl (South Florida) - See all my reviews

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I gave Noisy City Day and Noisy City Night to my friend's two year old. He lives in NYC. Although he loves his barn and farm books, he needs something that relates to his life and all the sounds and noises of the city. These books are so cool - he likes making the car noises and truck noises when we read it and he identifies with the noises the book highlights, and the colors and shapes are so bright and funky. Great set for a child in the city!