Synopsis
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.
Publishers Weekly
Two die-cut board books by Sara Anderson highlight the colorful sounds of an urban environment in Noisy City Day and Noisy City Night. Her largely geometric shapes in cut-paper collage highlight the boxy height of skyscrapers as well as the triangular patterns on a bridge. From a dog's "woof-woof on the roof" of an apartment building in the daytime to the nighttime "squealing banging/ clang clang clanging!" of the fire trucks' alarm, Anderson's onomatopoeic text and electric palette bring the city to life. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.