This book was about a man whose house was so noisy he couldn’t sleep, so he asked a wise man for advice. The wise man told him to get all these animals and the house ended up being even noisier, so he gets rid of them all and doesn’t notice any noises any more. This book was an “easy reader” book. It was made up of the same words repeatedly and a lot of the phrases were repeated though out the book and had a lot of visual clues. I read a book almost identical to this book this summer to the kids at the child care center I was working at. It was really interactive because they picked up the pattern of the book very fast. The illustrations weren’t very fancy and didn’t have much detail but they were recognizable for the children who use visual clues to help them read. I didn’t like the wise man in the book though. This is like the third book I have read this semester that has had a wise man or some powerful person and they are supposed to be so smart but they are actually really dumb. If they are labeled as “wise”, then the writer should make them actually smart. If they aren’t than they shouldn’t be labeled as such. I think it is misguiding and to top it off, the wise person never gets corrected at the end either. The man in the book was made out to be so stupid through the whole book and then the wise man was the one to be wrong the whole time.
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