Buzz! Boom! Bang! - by Benjamin Gottwald (Hardcover)

About the Book

"This wordless picture book is meant to be read aLOUD! Can you bang and boom, caw and crash, buzz and blub, pitter-patter and pffffft? Will you whoosh, yawn, moo or roar? It s easy!"--

Book Synopsis

A brand-new kind of interactive picture book invites you to make the sounds you see--and inspires endless fun.

This wordless picture book is meant to be read aLOUD!

Can you bang and boom,
caw and crash,
buzz and blub,
pitter-patter and pffffft?

Will you whoosh, yawn, moo or roar? It's easy!

1. Open the book.
2. Make the sound that you see.
3. Giggle, turn the page, repeat.

With bold colors, zany illustrations, and no words at all, Buzz! Boom! Bang! inspires a whole new kind of reading experience.

Review Quotes

"Bold shapes and vivid colors help set the stage for noises within the amusing, smart compositions."-- "The Horn Book"

"The flexibility of the reading experience offered here will appeal to a wide variety of age groups and various levels of reading/language fluency."-- "Youth Services Book Review, starred review"

A lively and imaginative exploration of sound that will delight both children and caregivers.--

"Recommended for most libraries--and no shushing allowed!"-- "Booklist"

"[A] joyous celebration of sound, movement, and imagination..."-- "Children's Literature"

"An eclectic, original book in which creativity is key."-- "Kirkus Reviews"

About the Author

Benjamin Gottwald lives in Hamburg, Germany, where he works as an illustrator and animator, draws for a magazine, and builds characters out of wood. The idea for Buzz! Boom! Bang! came from his thesis at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, and the German edition won the Hamburg Picture Book Prize and the German Youth Literature Award.