Title: Quiet Bunny
Author: Lisa McCue
Illustrator: Lisa McCue
Publisher: Sterling
Publication Date: 2009
Genre: Picture Book/Animals
Audience: Gr. PreK-2
Overview: This picture book is about a bunny who lives in the forest and loves the sounds of the forest. Quiet Bunny enjoys the sounds during each moment of the day whether it is morning birds singing, or the croaking of the bull frogs at night. Quiet Bunny begins to wish he too could become a part of the sounds of the forest. He goes to many creatures in the forest and asks them how to make their sounds, however, each time he attempts to make a sound or mimic theirs he is unable to. Bunny then learns that if he stays true to himself he will find his own sound. At the end Bunny becomes overjoyed when he finally finds his own sound and joins in to the delightful sounds of the forest.
Activity: For this particular book I think it would be fun to create an activity where younger students focus on the sounds of different animals and creatures. As a class, the students and the teacher could make a miniature book that incorporates all of the animals/creatures from the story and the sounds they make. As a class they could go through the story and pick them out one by one. The teacher could have a clip art image of the animal to put on a page in the book, and students could take turns writing the sounds on each page. During this activity, the teacher could facilitate the students in sounding out the all of the sounds together as a class.
Reviewer's Name: Amanda Scocco
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