The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Brown, Margaret Wise

The Noisy Book

36 pp. | HarperFestival | June, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-248465-9 $7.99
New ed. (1939)

(2) PS Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. Two of Margaret Wise Brown's seven Noisy books featuring Muffin, "the little dog who heard everything," are here reissued in sturdy, glossy, faithful-to-the-original board books. Generations of children have reveled in the books' interactive noises, direct-address questions, enjoyably silly possibilities ("Was it a policeman going squeak squeak squeak? NO"), and final revelations. Review covers these titles: The Noisy Book and The Quiet Noisy Book.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano