A Sound Like Someone Trying Not To Make A Sound
When a child hears a noise in the night he gets up to investigate. He calls his father to help him and they work through all the things that the 'noise' could be, eventually realising that it is nothing to be scared of. An empowering book about over coming ones fears handled with brilliant...
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When a child hears a noise in the night he gets up to investigate. He calls his father to help him and they work through all the things that the 'noise' could be, eventually realising that it is nothing to be scared of. An empowering book about over coming ones fears handled with brilliant originality by John Irving and Tatjana Hauptmann.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780747572930 (0747572933)
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Edition language: English
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/10/i-write-for-young-readers-not-uptight.html
I like the story as an adult but I wouldn't want to read it to a child before bedtime. I may not want to read it myself before bedtime. When Tom, who has been awakened by a mysterious noise, tries to tell his father what the creature sounds like, they have the following conversation:"What does it so...
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