Night Sounds (Play the Sounds, Pull the Tabs) (Hardcover)

by Frank Gallo (Author), Lori Lohstoeter (Illustrator) "I am a howling wild dog that lives in a den and makes yipping sounds with my pups..." (more)

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Product Description
In nature, we often hear the sound of a bird or an animal before we can see it. Our new Hear and There Books have the same effect. After reading a short riddle, children are asked "What am I?" By pushing a color-coded button on the sound strip, they can hear the call of the bird or the animal. When they pull the tab on the right page, the animal is revealed. To find out more about the featured bird or animal, readers can lift the flap on the left-hand page for more detailed information on its habitat, its young, and its behavior. Written by a professional naturalist, these books are beautifully illustrated, fun to listen to, and filled with interesting facts!

This book introduces the calls of eight different North American birds that children can easily imitate. By reading the clues about each bird, hearing its call, and pulling the tab to see its colorful feathering, children are soon able to identify the sounds and appearance of the killdeer, American robin, barred old, eastern towhee, northern cardinal, black-capped chickadee, red-winged blackbird, and northern bobwhite.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 16 pages
• Publisher: Innovative Kids (March 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584760656
• ISBN-13: 978-1584760658
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #186,853 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Coyotes, katydids and owls -- oh my!, January 9, 2005

By	A. Ryan "Merribelle" (Westminster, CA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This book was bought as a family Christmas present last month. I thought that my boys, ages 3 and 6, would like it but jumpin' jimminy, it's become their favorite bedtime book.

Basically, you have a riddle on one side of the page that gives a few hints about the creature, and then you press the color-coded button on the bar below. The creature's sound is called and the child can try to guess its name. Then he can pull a tab on the opposite page to reveal a hidden picture of the night creature. Another flap under the riddle has more information.

My six year old cannot get enough of this. After we'd only read the book through a few times he started to play "guess this sound" games with me. He has all 10 creature calls memorized, as well as a lot of facts on each one. How many kids today know what a whippoorwill is, much less what it sounds like? As far as I'm concerned, Night Sounds is the perfect example of how to make learning both fun and effective for children.

I am planning on getting Bird Sounds and Safari Sounds (the other two books in this series) based on the tremendous enjoyment we have gotten out of Night Sounds. Fabulous teaching tool and a highly recommended family read-aloud book.
-Andrea, aka Merribelle.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars enchanting introduction to the night's mysterious animals, December 28, 2002

By	audrey (white mtns) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This is a fun, entertaining and informative introduction to nocturnal animals for city or country kids. Each of eight animals is given a double-page spread that includes a large pull-tab that reveals the animal in a natural setting; a large lift-the-flap that reveals the animal's identity, picture and several well-chosen paragraphs of interesting information; and a 2-3 second push-button recording with decent sound quality -- the sounds are authentic but a little fuzzy. The eight animals are the coyote, spring peeper, great horned owl, American toad, whippoorwill, field cricket, bullfrog and katydid -- one mammal, two birds, three amphibians and two insects.

This is the kind of book that excites children's interest in nature. It is thoughtful and beautiful.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Here is a great book to keep young kids mesmerized & reading, April 4, 2001

By	Mrs. Terry Rubin "terryrubin" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews

I am a book buyer for a community center with a large preschool program. This book is a hit! The kids can see the vivid colors bird (or other animal, reptile etc.), they can hear the sound it makes and the can read or have read to them a lot more fascinating and at least to me, unappreciated facts about nature. Their are many other activities to keep even the busiest child engaged, such as lift the flap or pull the tab. I am ordering the other title now as well as additional copies of this title and look forward to it as well. Congratulations to Mr.Gallo as well as to Ms.Lohstoeter for a book that is so beautifully written and illustrated!