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Noisy City Night

Handprint Books By Sara Anderson

8 x 9 in; 6 pp ; board book, full-color ilustrations, ages 2-5
Published in February, 2005
ISBN 1593540558
ISBN13 9781593540555

$7.95  

Noisy City Night -- This oversized board book traces a city across the span of a night -- filled with the people, traffic, parks, streets, stores, and buildings that make up the town. The breadth of the urban experience may all be found here: from the bicyclist lazily gliding through the park to the raucous swooshhhhh of traffic; from the clanging crash of construction work to the quiet of a sweeping streetscape as seen from a high-floor apartment building.
Vibrant colors that zing with the heat rising from a steaming sidewalk are perfectly matched to a syncopated, sound-filled, chant-again-and-again text. Ingeniously die-cut pages reinforce the experience of the city skyline in a stylish book that represents a tour-de-force performance by Sara Anderson.

Sara Anderson is a versatile designer and children’s illustrator. Alongside her work on children’s books, she has also designed fabric, ceramics, and furniture for clients as diverse as MoMA and Crate and Barrel from her studio in Seattle. Her previous books include Some of My Best Friends Are Polka-Dot Pigs (0-9702784-0-3).