So Many Sounds

by Dana Meachen Rau

A girl shows her visitor some of the many sounds to be heard around her farm.

Genres: Picture Books

24 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2000

About the author

Dana Meachen Rau is an author, editor, and illustrator of children's books. She has written more than 100 books for children, many of them nonfiction in subjects including astronomy, history, and geography, as well as numerous biographies. She lives in Burlington, Connecticut, with her husband and two children.

Reviews

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

My 6 year old daughter was able to read this book almost all by herself!

[Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

E read two of this "Rookie Reader" Level A series today. Like the "My First Reader" series, there is a word bank to let you know which/how many words are in the text, but it's easier to pick out the simple books since the RR series is leveled into A, B, and C (with MFR I had to open each book to see whether they had 16 or 40 words).

These use 2-6 word sentences per page spread with alternate sentences rhyming. The illustrations are colorful and mesh well with the text. The two that I read didn't use humor or have any plot, just a series of related sentences.

[Amy Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rookie Reader Level A
Sixteen words. Good visual clues and simple sentences with one word changing each time. AR 0.4