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Hush! A Thai Lullaby
This book contains a lullaby which asks animals such as a lizard, monkey, and water buffalo to be quiet and not disturb the sleeping baby. 1997 Caldecott Honor Book
Paperback, 32 pages
Published
March 1st 2000
by Scholastic
(first published March 1st 1996)
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It’s bedtime for a little Thai baby. It’s quiet when his mother lays him in the hammock to sleep, but soon she hears, “Wee-wee, Wee-wee.” It’s a mosquito buzzing! The mother hurries to shush the insect so that her baby can sleep. The mosquito flies away, but the night isn’t quiet for long. A lizard comes a peeping, “Tuk-Ghaa, Tuk-Ghaa,” a glossy white duck comes a beeping, “Ghap-ghap, Ghap-ghap,” as well as the noises made by a black cat, a muddy fat pig, a gray mouse, a green frog, a loose-limb...more
Used for Animal Antics Baby Storytime 9/14/12. Worked pretty well - particularly when I encouraged the parents to act out the animal noises and actions with their babies. I did however skip a few pages (the duck, the monkey and the water buffalo) to make the length more appropriate. The text highlights the Thai words for animal noises and follows a pattern for each animal verse. I'd love to know if there's an actual melody floating around for this somewhere.
For older readers, the illustrations b...more
For older readers, the illustrations b...more
This lullaby poem is very sweet and insightful of the Thai culture. The animals in the story make noises that we aren't used to hearing. The frog makes the noise "op-op op-op" in comparison to the American culture's "ribbit" frog noise. While some of the animals used in the poem are similar to everyday animals here, such as the frog and mosquito, there are some like the water buffalo and elephant that we would never see outside our window.
The poem is fun and makes a very obvious rhythm that chi...more
The poem is fun and makes a very obvious rhythm that chi...more
2nd-3rd Grades
Ho did a great job with the text in this story there was a lot of rhyming and repetition in this story, it was fun and entertaining I think that any student at any age would enjoy this poem. The images were very full of lively colors that were very appealing to the eye. Each picture told the story very well Meade did a great job with her illustrations. The sense or the idea of this poem was about the mother trying to keep everyone quite while the baby is sleeping. She goes around t...more
Ho did a great job with the text in this story there was a lot of rhyming and repetition in this story, it was fun and entertaining I think that any student at any age would enjoy this poem. The images were very full of lively colors that were very appealing to the eye. Each picture told the story very well Meade did a great job with her illustrations. The sense or the idea of this poem was about the mother trying to keep everyone quite while the baby is sleeping. She goes around t...more
A mother tells a variety of animals to hush so that her baby can sleep.
The pictures, made of cut paper and thick, colorful ink, depict a Thai evening complete with hammocks, lizards, pigs, elephants, and water buffalo. The paper works particularly well in the textured mats of the mother's home, the multicolored leaves of the jungle trees, and the woven baskets near the baby's hammock. Images take up one- to two-page spreads, leaving some lighter colored areas for the text.
The simple, rhyming tex...more
The pictures, made of cut paper and thick, colorful ink, depict a Thai evening complete with hammocks, lizards, pigs, elephants, and water buffalo. The paper works particularly well in the textured mats of the mother's home, the multicolored leaves of the jungle trees, and the woven baskets near the baby's hammock. Images take up one- to two-page spreads, leaving some lighter colored areas for the text.
The simple, rhyming tex...more
I just traveled to Thailand so this book really sparked my interest. I just read another children's book about animal noises in different languages. This book was exactly that. Different animals appeared throughout the book and made their sound but it was all in Thai language. One scene of this book also portrayed a big part of their culture-the rice barn. There are many rice fields in Thailand and Southeast Asia in general as that is a big part of their agriculture. The pictures illuminated the...more
Hush! A Thai Lullaby is a Caldecott Honor book. A Thai mother puts her child, Baby, down to sleep in the house. As soon as Baby starts sleeping, all kinds of noises are coming from all around. The mother is constantly hushing animals telling them not to wake Baby. Finally, after the mother is exhausted she falls asleep at the windowsill and Baby becomes wide-awake. Hush! is a cute book that can definitely be incorporated into teaching. If any of my students have younger siblings, I could read th...more
What a wonderful bedtime story for a youngster! I requested the book through my library because of the artist. Holly Meade lives in Sedgick, Maine . . . and I just wanted to check out some of her other work as a result of her beautiful collages in Naamah and the Ark at Night. I wasn't disappointed. As well, Minfong Ho's lullaby, set in rural Thailand, is a delight for young children, who will learn a lot about animals that might disturb the nap of a youngster supposedly napping while his Mom is...more
This book is a Caldecott Honor Book. I really enjoy the rhythmic "song" of this Thai Lullaby. This story is about a young child who has just fallen asleep in a hammock and his mother who works to quiet all the surrounding noises. The mother talks to a mosquito, a lizard, a cat, a mouse ....... She tells them to "Hush". The animals answer the mother, but not in the typical animal sounds that we all grew up with. The frog answers with "op-op,op-op", and the pig with "uut-uut,uut-uut". The animal s...more
The book Hush’s pictures are low intensity colors they are mostly browns and reds, and greens but they work really well for the book. They set the tone of the book because it is probably centered from a place in a village in Africa. The colors do a great job of displaying that. The artistry was probably a painted technique. Each shape is drawn with a red line and then filled in with color. A red line outlines all of the shapes. It also has lots of different lines it has vertical, horizontal, dia...more
Title: Hush! A Thai Lullaby
Arthor: Minfong Ho
Illustrator: Holly Meade
Date of publication: 1996
Publisher: Tandem Library
ISBN: 13: 9780613726221
Number of Pages: 32
Description/ Summary: Ages 4- up (kdg- 2nd grade). A lullaby which asks animals such as a lizard, monkey, and water-buffalo to be quiet and not disturb the sleeping baby.
Rhythmic text- great for reading aloud:
Theme: the stabilizing influence of family
Activity:
Before reading the story, show the book cover. Ask them what they see. Ask
the...more
Arthor: Minfong Ho
Illustrator: Holly Meade
Date of publication: 1996
Publisher: Tandem Library
ISBN: 13: 9780613726221
Number of Pages: 32
Description/ Summary: Ages 4- up (kdg- 2nd grade). A lullaby which asks animals such as a lizard, monkey, and water-buffalo to be quiet and not disturb the sleeping baby.
Rhythmic text- great for reading aloud:
Theme: the stabilizing influence of family
Activity:
Before reading the story, show the book cover. Ask them what they see. Ask
the...more
Hush is a picture book based on a lullaby from Thailand. In the story a mother tries to quiet all the surrounding animals but what she doesn’t realize is that while she does this her baby is up crawling around and playing. I loved the repeating stanza in this story and the rhythm of the poem. I also liked that the only indication the reader had that the baby was awake (before the end) is that you can se him moving around in the background of the paper collage illustrations, which I found very am...more
Minfong Ho's Hush! A Thai Lullaby is the perfect bedtime book. Told through question-answer style rhyming poetry and funny onomatopoetic animal sounds, a Thai mother shushes all the animals while her baby sleeps. When she finally quiets the whole house and surrounding jungle, she falls asleep and the only one left awake is the baby. Accompanied by Holly Meade's award winning, texture rich, cut-paper illustrations, this book will delight children from pre-school to first grade.
Jan 11, 2013
Victoria Hill
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
historical-fiction,
picture-book
This book not only introduces many animals but also their sounds! As the mother goes around the house asking the animals to go to sleep for her baby is, the kid is out wandering around without her knowledge. In the end the mother is excused and all the animals are sleeping except for the baby. This book makes you laugh; the illustrations keep you looking for the baby as the mother goes about her hushing. I think this would be a great bedtime story or nap time story young children.
This book won a 1997 Caldecott Honor. A young mother is trying to keep her baby asleep, but all the animals of the jungle are preventing her from doing so. I loved the illustrations, which were cut-paper collage and ink, that just popped with the colors she used. I thought the story was just too long. The age group for this book is supposed to ages 2-6, but trust me when I say that their attention would be gone after the second animal (and there were 10 in all). Given that, I would recommend thi...more
This is a the story of a mother in Thailand trying to get the surrounding world quiet so that her baby can sleep. The rythm and rhyme make is enjoyable for young readers and exposes them to the world of Thailand with all the creatures and animals that surround the hut where mother and child live. I would recommemd this book to primary teachers and know that it could lead to really good discussions, both about the content of the book and about the phonemic awareness elements.
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What an excellent multicultural book! I really enjoyed the images and setting of Thailand, and how the poetry fit with each part of the story as the mother tried to quiet each animal. It is interesting to see how cultures observe certain things differently, such as the animal noises in this book. I think students would find it amusing to try and compare the sounds of the animals in the book compared to how we observe their noises in our culture.
The illustrations of this book exposes the reader to a small village in Thailand. It is a story of a mother putting her child down to sleep; however the outside world is being too loud to allow the baby to stay asleep. This would make a good bedtime story, the writing is poetic, comparable to a lullaby. As the characters in the book are wishing all things to go to sleep, so can you and your child in your own bedtime routine.
Read this for my children's lit. course. I think I would choose this book to read for preschool children more likely than elementary school age due to the sing song sound of it and the animal noises on each page, but it's still a very nice book. Pretty pictures, neat window onto life in another part of the world. Could be suitable to teach about structure and elements of poetry to older students.
Jun 25, 2011
Paula
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Shelves:
bedtime,
world,
song,
sleeping,
story-time,
rhyme,
pre-school,
mother,
felt-pieces,
animals,
caldecott-honor,
lullaby
A beautiful lullaby from Thailand where a mother is asking all the animals from very small to large to be quiet so that her baby can go to sleep. The only out of order is the cat comes before the mouse and the frog. One could make a felt set for this book and especially show how the animals are getting larger. The repetition is wonderful but there is a lot of text and there are a lot of animals.
A mother tries to quiet all the animals so that her child can rest. Ho's short, gently rhyming text reads like a poem. Meade's natural, earth toned palette, with bold orange outlines for the figures is striking. Variety of perspectives adds interest. Clearly a different place; culturally specific elements include the animals, rice barn, dress, baby sleeping in hammock.
Based on a lullaby from Thailand, this adorable book features a mother who is so worried about her child sleeping that she goes around telling all of the animals to be quiet. What really makes the story enjoyable, however, are the humorous drawings in which while the mom is chasing down the animals, the baby is sneaking out of his bed and playing! In the end, though, he gets back into bed before his mom notices, and she goes into the house and falls asleep, secure in the knowledge that she has q...more
Sep 17, 2012
Becky B
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Multicultural classrooms, Language teachers, Int'l schools
I teach at an international school in Thailand, so my students in the library especially loved this book. It is a simple tale of a mother trying to quiet everyone down so baby can sleep, but baby has other plans. The onomatopoiea made by the people and animals is fun because it is written "Thai style," not necessarily the sounds that Americans use.
This is such a beautiful book with lovely rhymes. The animals in the book made exciting and fun sounds which a young class would have such fun imitating. The endearing love of the mother for her baby is profound and moving in the rhymes of the mother. This book reads like a song and would be a good story to red to discuss the flow and movement of writing.
This is a great book for teaching the importance of respecting and honoring ethnic heritage and teach students that people do things differently and that we should all respect our differences.It cam be used to talk Thailand and its culture. Its great to use when talking about events and holidays that different groups of people keep.
A Thai mother hushes all the noisy insects and animals so that they won't wake her baby. A mosquito, a lizard, a cat, a mouse, a frog, a pig, a duck, a monkey, an old water buffalo, and a great big elephant all quiet down and go to sleep, until the only one awake is......Baby! This Caldecott Honor book is a lovely bedtime story.
This is about a mother singing a lullaby to her baby so that he will fall asleep. The mother is trying to get all the animals outside to be quiet so her baby can sleep. She runs outside to make them be quiet and by the time she gets back she is exhausted. A cute book on a mother trying to get her baby to sleep.
The outcome of the cut-paper collage and ink is very fine, with both strong lines, hints of texture and the softest shading. The repetition within the poem, all the imaginative details of each illustration, and the "sleeping child" who moves about in each drawing all add to the strength of the whole.
We've gotten this picture book a couple of times from the library. I love the "song" and call-answer aspect of the book, but what got me to check it out again was the non-American animal sounds. I love hearing what sounds other cultures ascribe to animals! It made it fun to read aloud (again and again).
Keeping everyone or in this casr animals while a baby sleeps is a routine/chore in every culture. I loved the repeating refrain used with each animal and the illustrations with the muted colors and simple lines are great! This title was certainly deserving of the 1997 Caldecott Honor.
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Minfong Ho is an award-winning Chinese-American writer. Her works frequently deal with the lives of people living in poverty in Southeast Asian countries.
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