Clang! Clang! Beep! Beep! Listen to the City

Clang! Clang! Beep! Beep! Listen to the City by Robert Burleigh
Ages 3-7

I think this would be a great book to use in the classroom if you are talking about senses. It concentrates on our hearing sense by listening to the world around us. We don’t realize that we hear these things everyday, but if we made our self stop and listen we would most definitely hear a lot of the same noises from in this book. It is a very simple word book. There are about six words on each page and they rhyme to make it flow nicely.
The noise words are written in very large text next to the object that makes the noise. For example, one page says “Bridge arms lifting, Barges drifting.” Then “Clang Clang” is written over by a picture of the barge in the water. Putting sounds and their objects together I think make it easier for the reader.
The illustrations in the book took up the whole page. The pictures were all done graphically on the computer, which gives it a very modern appeal to the book. I thought there was great use of bold colors.