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Listen to the City
Hip illustrations and simple text describe the sights and sounds of a day in the city, from the beeps of the taxis to the boings of a basketball.
- GenresPicture Books
32 pages, Hardcover
First published April 24, 2000
About the author
Rachel Isadora
91 books81 followersRachel Isadora is an award-winning children's author and illustrator. She has written children's books on multiple topics including ballet, life in America and Africa, and has illustrated several Brother Grimm tales in an African setting. She is most well-known for her Caldecott Honor Award book "Ben's Trumpet". She was a ballet dancer before she became an illustrator and children's writer.
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March 18, 2021
I enjoyed the old school comics style of the illustrations.
February 10, 2012
Listen to the City by Rachel Isadora uses pop art and simple text to describe a noisy day in the city.
A wide variety of sounds conveys the many activities of residents of a busy city. Cats, dogs and pigeons add their meows, barks and coos to kitchen sounds, footsteps, cars, trucks, motorcycles, helicopters, subway trains, construction equipment, tugboats, babies, basketballs, popping balloons, mustard squirts, movies, musicians and garbage trucks. This is a 3.5 for me, just short of four stars.
The pop art will appeal to children and adults. I especially enjoyed the images of sizzling bacon & toast popping, helicopter, sidewalk feet, construction, traffic, hotdog, subway, tugboat and sax.
The speech bubbles and bright colors give this title a graphic novel look. Kids should enjoy making the variety of sounds.
For ages 2 to 5, city, sounds, pop art, 5 senses, and fans of Rachel Isadora.
A wide variety of sounds conveys the many activities of residents of a busy city. Cats, dogs and pigeons add their meows, barks and coos to kitchen sounds, footsteps, cars, trucks, motorcycles, helicopters, subway trains, construction equipment, tugboats, babies, basketballs, popping balloons, mustard squirts, movies, musicians and garbage trucks. This is a 3.5 for me, just short of four stars.
The pop art will appeal to children and adults. I especially enjoyed the images of sizzling bacon & toast popping, helicopter, sidewalk feet, construction, traffic, hotdog, subway, tugboat and sax.
The speech bubbles and bright colors give this title a graphic novel look. Kids should enjoy making the variety of sounds.
For ages 2 to 5, city, sounds, pop art, 5 senses, and fans of Rachel Isadora.
May 12, 2010
This is a great book to teach powerful verbs to ELLs. Words like "sizzle" "pop" "click" and "honk" give sounds to writing as well as action. This is definitely something ESL kids can use extra help with. This could be a great opener into a writing activity.
March 15, 2016
Age Range: 2-6
PreSchool-Grade 3
PreSchool-Grade 3
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews