Sounds of the Wild: Nighttime (Pledger Sounds) [Pop-Up]

Maurice Pledger (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up | Series: Pledger Sounds

Nighttime is hardly quiet. It’s filled with a world of strange and curious sounds. Now children discover all of the amazing animals that are wide awake when they are fast asleep in this delightful new book from best-selling author and illustrator Maurice Pledger. Sounds of the Wild Nighttime brings together incredible pop-up panoramas and mysterious animal sounds to give little ones a glimpse into the mysterious, after-dark world. They journey to the European woodland, and hear the calls of tawny owls on the hunt, then it’s off to the sunset shadows of the Mediterranean where they can listen to noisy cicadas. The moonlit tour continues on to the Rocky Mountains, the Everglades and the Malaysian jungle, rumbling with the majestic roar of the Indo-Chinese tiger. This wonderful nighttime adventure makes an educational and entertaining bedtime book.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Maurice Pledger is an internationally-acclaimed artist known best for his realistic and detailed illustrations of animals and wildlife. He has had no formal art training, but achieves the realism and detail in his beautiful artwork by spending many hours in the field observing, sketching and studying his subjects in their natural environment. First published at the young age of 17, he has since had his illustrations featured on greeting cards, prints, gifts, and books. He has created several successful series, including the Peek-and-Find series, the Maurice Pledger Nature Trails series, and the Maurice Pledger Sticker Books. He is the distinguished recipient of the 1992 Francis Williams Illustration Award for the Best Descriptive Illustration. This honor is given only once every 5 years by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Pop-Up: 16 pages
• Publisher: Silver Dolphin Books; Pop edition (October 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592234712
• ISBN-13: 978-1592234714
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 11.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,860 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #14 in Books > Children's Books > Science, Nature & How It Works > Environment & Ecology
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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Animal pop-up with sounds, March 28, 2008

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Shasta's D (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sounds of the Wild: Nighttime (Pledger Sounds) (Pop-Up)

Maurice Pledger's book have great illustrations that are detailed and true to life. Any of his books should be visually pleasing. This book contains five two-page pop-up layouts covering different habitats (Euro woodland, Mediterranean scrubland, Rocky Mountains, Florida swamps, and Malaysian jungle). Each layout has animals and insects that are active at night. When you open a pop-up page, sounds that you would hear in that habitat play (e.g. wolves, cicadas). The sounds do not play continuously but, with a slight manipulation of the page, can easily be played again. Between each pop-up layout is a page with a numbered diagram to help identify the species featured, along with more information.

This book could be a favorite that grows with a child, as the colorful pop-ups and sounds will entertain when young, and the info and topic could be discussed when older. The sounds are nice b/c they aren't continuous, and battery replacement is an option.

The pop-ups are very nice with animal movement or springing up from the page. I do not feel the pop-ups are lacking, but they aren't as dazzling as some of the paper engineering out there.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, May 13, 2009

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P. A. Schwartz - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sounds of the Wild: Nighttime (Pledger Sounds) (Pop-Up)

My 15 month old grandson loves all of Maurice Pledgers pop up books with sounds. We look at them over and over and they are the first books he pulls out to look at. He has learned the names of most of the animals pictured and is very gentle with the book. After reading other reviews it is nice to know they are enjoyed by older kids too.
He is to young to follow a story line but he loves the colorful pictures and realistic sounds. I think there are 4 books with sounds from this author and we have them all.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's a Multisensory Experience!, April 17, 2009

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Laurette Ellis "vavsie" (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sounds of the Wild: Nighttime (Pledger Sounds) (Pop-Up)

I bought this book for my 16 month old daughter because she is into "animal sounds" and we both love Maurice Pleger books. It is our first Maurice Pledger sounds book. It think it has become her new favorite (and we have ALOT of books!!!!)

The sounds are interesting and pretty realistic for this type of media. The pictures are amazing. If you open and close it slightly the animals move and the sounds keep playing. The whole experience is incredibly lifelike and multisensory. Because my daughter is so young we just turn the pages and name the main animals in the scene and try to copy the sounds ourselves, but I like that she will get more and more out of it as she gets older.

This is a wonderful break from "baby books" and will fascinate toddlers as well as older children. It can be discussed as in a simple or complicated way and would help develop vocabulary in children at many different developmental levels. Unlike the touch-and-feel adventures, however, I do not leave this book when she can get it to look at by herself. This book would be easily destroyed by a younger child left unsupervised. Even when she is with me she wants to pull at the pop-ups because she is used to books with flaps that lift, but we get to learn another good concept - "gentle!"

I am definately going to collect the other Maurice Pledger "Sounds" books and recommend this one highly!