City Sounds written and illustrated
by Craig Brown.
City Sounds
City Sounds written and
illustrated by Craig Brown. Greenwillow, 1992.
A farmer travels to the city to pick up his
order of baby chicks at the post office.
Discuss the illustrations, which start the story,
on the title and dedication pages.
Read other books about city sights
and sounds.
Take a walk in the neighborhood and draw scenes
associated with the sounds.
Discuss onomatopoeia and
other books using this technique, for example:
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
by Vera Aardema (Dial, 1975), and
Night Noises by Mem Fox
(Harcourt, 1989).
Read poems about the city, for example:
"City Streets" and "Sing a Song of People" in
City Poems by Lois Lenski
(Walck, 1971), and
"City" by Langston
Hughes in The Random House Book
of Poetry for Children edited by Jack Prelutsky
(Random, 1983).
