by Laura Ellen Anderson
Illustrations by the author
Philomel Books
Penguin Random House LLC
2020
32 pages
ISBN: 9780593117286
A young girl rebels when her mother shushes her because her baby brother is sleeping. "Stairs are for stomping..." the girl says. It's more fun to make noise. Quiet is boring.
A trip to the library where her peers ask her (peer pressure!) to be quiet, they're reading, forces the girl to sit still and open a book. Suddenly, she's "spellbound!" Hours pass, and she's imagined pirate adventures, kings and queens, and whole other worlds. The next day, she learns more at school because she's still and LISTENS. She realizes there's a time to be quiet and time to be noisy, and when she is quiet, she notices things in her own world.
This is a sweet book with illustrations sure to please young readers.
Ages 2 and up.
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