(3) K-3 Illustrated by Yasmeen Ismail. Because of giraffe Noodle's loud snoring, Sophia's new pet (her birthday gift in One Word from Sophia) may be exiled from her quirky family. Approaching the problem scientifically, inquisitive Sophia consults an acoustical engineer, then experiments, fails, and finally builds a wacky "snore transformer" that turns Noodles's snoring into "a sweet giraffian lullaby." Loose, Raschka-esque watercolor and colored-pencil illustrations complement the story's playful language. Glos.

Reviewer: Martha Sibert

(4) PS Illustrated by Oriol Vidal. Mama Duck's three children, Flap, Feather, and Spike (two ducklings and a dinosaur, respectively), are old enough to sleep in their own nest. But a loud noise keeps waking them up. First they hide, then they run; finally, they decide to face their fear--and discover that the noise is Spike snoring. A slight follow-up to Duck, Duck, Dinosaur, with bold but busy digital illustrations.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano

(3) K-3 A tiny monster introduces readers to various sleeping creatures while sneakily recording their monstrous snores. When the creatures wake up hungry for "some little monsters to eat," the tiny monster scares them off with the recording. It requires close observation to follow the wee monster's clever machinations, but even the youngest set will have a handle on the big beasts, who have a creepy-cute Wild Thing quality.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Patricia Cantor. Christopher wakes up in the middle of the night to a strange sound and imagines several frightening scenarios for its source before tracking it to his snoring grandfather. Cantor's luminous, unscary pastel illustrations will comfort nervous readers, and the hand-lettered sounds ("HONK-SHOO!") will amuse them, but the text is lengthy and the story lacks a satisfying end.

Reviewer: Hannah Rodgers Barnaby

(4) K-3 Bernard is driving the other zoo otters bonkers with his snoring; he tries to find a new berth, but the rest of the zoo animals are no less irritated by his din. The book ends unimaginatively: the otters track down Bernard and tell him that they miss him. OHora's handsome, thickly outlined acrylic paintings have the eye-pleasing appearance of woodcuts.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(3) PS Illustrated by Pierre Pratt. When "a thundering, ear-splitting / Roar of a snore" prevents Jack from sleeping, he wakes each of his family members--and all the farm animals--but the snore roars on. After searching the hayloft, they finally find the source of the snore: a tiny kitten. Humorous acrylic paintings display the muted tones of nighttime on a farm.

Reviewer: Patricia Riley

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Ponder Goembel. How did the ancient supercontinent break up to become separate continents? Every night in that long-ago time, the rumbling snores of dinosaurs caused the earth to shake, rock, and finally split apart. Though the rhyme is occasionally awkward, this tongue-in-cheek history is accompanied by humorous illustrations of sleeping, snoring dinosaurs, complete with their blankies and stuffed animals.

Reviewer: Patricia Riley

(3) K-3 When a rumbling sound wakes a boy in the middle of the night, he wonders what could be making it: a lawn mower? A UFO? A monster? Text-free double-page black-and-white illustrations show the boy's ominous imaginings, while double-page images in deep blues and other nighttime hues depict him searching for and finally finding the noise source: his snoring father.

Reviewer: Patricia Riley

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Holly Meade. A girl relates the cacophonous sounds of her grandparents' snoring and its effect on their quaking household. The book retains its sense of humor to the end, as the girl's own snoring brings her amazed grandparents to her bedroom. Meade's lively line keeps the simple story moving and gives charm not only to the little girl but also to the overactive household objects, which add their own sound effects to the rousing chorus.

Reviewer: Lauren Adams | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2000

(2) PS Silence reigns in the house of a quiet man, his quiet wife, a cat named Mose, and parrot Will. Richly saturated pictures in vigorous crayon alternate with loosely outlined watercolor, setting up the drama between a snoring city mouse and the silent country home he disrupts. Hilarious banter builds up noisily as the mouse is taught quieter habits. A skilled reader will generally find a way around the sometimes awkward meter of the rhyming text.

Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2000