The Loudest Roar

by Thomas Taylor

Book by Thomas Taylor

Genres: Animals, Picture Books, Childrens, Humor, Friendship, Africa, Storytime

32 pages, Paperback

First published August 15, 2002

About the author

Thomas Henry Taylor is a British children's writer and illustrator.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...

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There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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Reviews

[✟Roxanne✟(Death by Book Avalanche) ☠]

A book that makes children aware of others when making loud noises.

[Kennady]

Clovis was a small tiger with the loudest roar, and he knew it. He would go sneaking up on all of the other animals and scaring them with his loud roar. After many different time, all of the animals got together and came up with a plan. They all snuck up on Clovis and gave him a scare with all of their roars. They agreed they wouldn't do it to him if he didn't do it to them. Clovis was usually well behaved after that

I gave this book 5 stars, I thought that it was entertaining and engaging. I think that it could teach kids a wonderful lesson. Along with that, I thought that the illustrations were great.

[Patricia Brioux]

This is a really cute, simple, fun, and very colourful children’s book for all to enjoy!

It both delivers a fabulous lesson that illustrates different communities coming together to establish one common goal, PEACE, and it also encourages its readers to live by the golden rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you!”

Loved this little read, would highly recommend it to our little readers!!

[Joyce Job]

I like the mischievous element of this book.

There's always a right and peaceful way to do a thing. And then there's a kids-way-of-doing-things. I liked how Clovis' mischief persists even after he strikes a deal with the animals. Children should be allowed to be naughty and loud as long as they can be(of course, ensuring nobody else is getting hurt). Children should be allowed to be children as long as it's possible to be.

[Kimberly]

Cute pictures!
A tiger cub loves sneaking up and scaring other animals. They then sneak up and scare him at the end. He's scared! They then said they'd stop scaring him, if he'd stop scaring them. He agrees.

I, for one, still enjoy a good scare. Receiving and giving. Though, there are times to stop. 😄

[Kayla]

I thought this would be a great book about introducing peacefulness in the classroom. I could tell them how being loud would disturb other students peace, and being quiet to help your friends concentrate is the right thing to do.

[Maria Fernanda Gama]

I'm not a child and don't have one , so I can't really comment on the educational side of it. But having a tiny cat in my home that also thinks she has the loudest roar in the jungle, I thought this was really cute.

[Tessa Duncan]

Clovis is a young tiger who loves his roar. Clovis is convinced that he has the loudest out of everyone. This is a simple book that would be perfect for younger readers to read along with.

[Tamara Rittershaus]

At first my daughter didn't get the joke at the end... but when I explained it, she laughed and laughed and asked to read it again. Now we have about worn this book out.

[Jenna Mills]

Similar to the Polar Bear who says boo book, though this likely came first. Rather predictable but enjoyable enough for a little one

[Alaina Davidson]

This is a great picture book for young children! It is a simple and easy read, yet fun. The illustrations are neat and nice.

[Alexandria Baker]

This book gives a lesson of fairness and promises. This book is very good for younger children and has great ways to use different voices in reading to catch their attention.

[Alyssa Ricard]

This book is FULL of sounds and repetition. This book also teaches a lesson that sometimes we should mind our business and not disrupt others.

[Brooklyn Shaffer]

This book shows how you need to act to gain friends. Everyone got me because the tiger was not being respectful. The illustrations are detailed.

[Jeff]

This is an adorable book about a little tiger named Clovis that has the loudest roar of all. He likes to show it off until the other animals get tired of it.

[Alyssa]

OH my gosh!!! So adorable! Now I have to do a jungle storytime just to use this one!

[KaitandMaddie]

The kids did the roaring for me.

[Adam]

“BE-E-E-E-E-SST ever!”

(read out loud by himself at 4yo, missed words ‘fiercest’, ‘roaringest’, ‘wildebeests’, and ‘swamp’)

[Thea]

Clovis, a tiny tiger who believes his roar to be the loudest in the jungle, keeps scaring other, unsuspecting animals until they team up to teach him a lesson.

Not much to say about this particular picture book. Let’s be honest, the main appeal are the opportunities both to roar and use the word “roaringest” frequently. I used this for my preschool (ages 0-5, not preschool preschool) storytime, and it worked pretty well. The kids seemed fairly engaged, and one toddler kept belatedly roaring adorably (roaring adorably – love the internal rhyme on that). That alone made it a fun selection.

This would work well as a read-aloud on any number of themes, including jungle, tiger, friendship, showing courtesy in public spaces (as I started thinking about it, it occurred to me that it could potentially be used to introduce the idea of “let's save our roaringest tiger roar for playing outdoors, and when indoors, instead, we'll use a quiet kitty purr”). It’s also pretty easy to skip pages with a younger or antsy crowd without losing any of the story. So a solid choice, even if it’s pretty common in its themes and narrative.

[Kay]

A clever little story about Clovis, a young tiger who is the loudest, ‘most roaringest tiger in the whole world’. Amidst the calm of the jungle, when the other animals are relaxing, Clovis would creep up and roar as loud as he could, frightening them all: from the parrots to the elephants.

Then one day the monkey had an idea, and through communication and collaboration with the other animals, they decide to get their own back on the tiger. They crept up on him whilst he was drinking at the water hole and made the loudest noise they could, making the surprised tiger run up the nearest tree and peep over. The monkey, looking up at Clovis said that if he promised not to roar at everyone, they would promise not to roar at him.

The jungle became peaceful again and Clovis behaved himself, until that is … he saw the tortoise.

A colourful book, showing the different animals that are found in the jungle.

[Andrew Shute]

A clever and cheerful book. I read it as a end-of-the-day story to my Year 1 class and they loved it, all of the class got involved and I was able to get my pupils to predict what was going to happen next.
Clovis may be a small baby lion but he reckons and he has the loudest roar in the world and is more than happy to make his fellow jungle friends jump as he shows off his loud roar! But the tables are turned on him at the end.
A pleasant read to a class full of young children.

[Mills]

Perhaps I'm being cynical, but at best The Loudest Roar's message is "be quiet and stop annoying people". At worst, it's saying "don't express yourself, even if what you want to say is as intrinsic a part of you as a tiger and his roar...". I realise young children won't see any such profound message in the story, but I still see nothing positive about the tale. The illustration itself is middle of the range. Any positives? The "word" roaring-est.

[Angela]

Sam liked the sound effects on this one. Too bad he's not old enough to understand the moral of the story! Would be good for a toddler learning to use his/her inside voice, or learning that just because you *can* do something, that doesn't mean you should.

(This review is based on the book only, not the book & CD.)

[Angela]

The illustrations were bright and colorful which in my opinion makes children's books better. This was a cute book about a tiger names Clovis who wanted to show everyone how fierce he was. Clovis scared a bunch of the animals so they got together to show Clovis how it felt to be roared at. At the end of the book Clovis is well behaved. In my opinion this would be a good anti-bullying book.

[Jenny]

My sons both loved this simple book about a cute, but annoying, little tiger. The five-year-old even had me read it to his Kindergarten class! It's a sweet little book, although the monkey illustrations creep me out.

[Tricia]

cute story about a little lion who learns his lesson not to roar and scare other animals in the jungle. or does he?

[Aramis]

A fun and simple storytime read about a little tiger with a very big roar, who thought that was reason enough to make him better than everyone. Has a cute little bit of a twist at the end.

[Bethany]

From Ms. Kim

Cute book for emerging readers. This book could be very interactive and prove to be a good "brain break" where everyone can practice their lion sounds.

[Paula]

Clovis, a small tiger with a loud roar, disturbs the peace and calm of the jungle until the day that the other animals put their heads and voices together.

[Ashlyn Barker-Salyer]

This is a good example of a predictable text for early readers. I would say this is best for K-1st grades.