What's That Noise?

by Francesca Simon, David Melling (Illustrator)

Harry sleeps over at his grandparents' house and is frightened by the noises in the night

30 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1996

About the author

Francesca Simon grew up in California and attended both Yale and Oxford Universities, where she specialised in Medieval Studies. How this prepared her to write children’s books she cannot imagine, but it did give her a thorough grounding in alliteration.

She then threw away a lucrative career as a medievalist and worked as a freelance journalist, writing for the Sunday Times, Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Telegraph, and Vogue (US). After her son Joshua was born in 1989, she started writing children’s books full time. One of the UK’s best-selling children’s writers, Francesca has published over 50 books, including the immensely popular HORRID HENRY series, which has now sold over twelve million copies.

Francesca won the Children’s Book of the Year in 2008 at the British Book Awards for Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman. HORRID HENRY is published in 24 countries and is also an animated CITV series. She lives in London with her husband, son, and Tibetan Spaniel, Shanti.

Reviews

[Emma Otusajo · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a great book for early years or key stage 1 age children who are learning about different sounds, as well as experiencing new parts of life, such as going somewhere new for the first time. The story really helps young children relate to the experiences they have, and shows us that it is not only children who feel fears or worries - grandpa does, too!

I read the story to year 1, and got the children to use simple instruments to create some of the sounds in the story to bring it to life a bit more, and encouraged them to guess what the sounds might be. It's a nice little story which can help children with learning about retelling stories, having new experiences and showing that adults, as well as children, can feel scared about things.

[Gitta · Rating 3 out of 5]

salah satu jerih payah dari stand star books, ikapi bookfair, 16 nov 2007 kemaren.
rp 29.000.
not bad..
ngajarin anak-anak biar ga takut tidur sendirian.