{"id":42688,"date":"2024-09-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=42688"},"modified":"2024-09-03T12:54:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T19:54:54","slug":"noisy-night-the-complete-middle-school-study-guides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/noisy-night-the-complete-middle-school-study-guides\/","title":{"rendered":"Noisy Night \/ The Complete Middle School Study Guides"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Books That Belong On Paper<\/strong>\u00a0first appeared on the web as Wink Books and was edited by Carla Sinclair.<\/em>\u00a0Sign up here<\/a>\u00a0to get the issues a week early in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NOISY NIGHT \u2014 A DELIGHTFUL READ ALOUD FOR THE PRESCHOOL SET<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Noisy Night<\/em>
by Mac Barnett, Brian Biggs (Illustrator)
Roaring Brook Press
2017, 32 pages, 8.3 x 0.4 x 11.6 inches, Hardcover<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Noisy Night is a delightful read aloud for the preschool set. The book takes readers up, up, up through the floors of an apartment building and into the noisy nighttime goings-on of a silly cast of characters. For anyone who lives, or has ever lived, below someone in a building, this book breathes some fun into a familiar story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mac Barnett\u2019s rhythmic, onomatopoeia-ic prose and Bigg\u2019s illustrative sneak peeks make guessing the inhabitants of each floor easy for excited little ones, while the characters themselves (drawn to look just as loud as they sound) keep the story fresh. It\u2019s easy to embellish the book with self-made sound effects since you can practically hear the music, not just of the actual musicians like the trumpet player and opera singer, but also of the sounds bouncing around the bright rooms in which guffawing cowboys, raucous cheerleaders, and elated cha-cha dancers let loose. The story ends with a final racket to quiet all rackets, the shouts of a grumpy old man. The book ends with the old man snoring soundly, and it\u2019s hard not to imagine his now-shushed downstairs neighbors clutching pillows over their ears as this final nighttime noise echoes down to the ground floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Mk Smith Despres<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO ACE SERIES IS LIKE BORROWING NOTES FROM THE SMARTEST KID IN CLASS<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Everything You Need to Ace \u2026 The Complete Middle School Study Guides<\/em>
by Workman Publishing
Abrams ComicArts
2017, 240 pages, 6.9 x 1.0 x 9.4 inches, Hardcover<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking through these books, I find myself wanting to shout out phrases I haven\u2019t thought of in decades: the Triangular Trade! Crispus Attucks! Isthmus of Panama!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cEverything You Need to Ace\u2026\u201d series aren\u2019t text books; they\u2019re supposed to be the notes you failed to take in class. Flip through them before a test, or keep them by the sofa to pick up from time to time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My middle-school informant feels they\u2019re roughly accurate for what he\u2019s studying in school. An adult informant \u2014 okay, me \u2014 feels they\u2019re also useful if you find yourself parenting a middle schooler and want to not seem completely ignorant, but it\u2019s been a really long time since you studied the Meiji Restoration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The breezy format can lead to oversimplification: for example, the overthrow of Queen Lili\u02bbuokalani by American businessmen and the US Marines, which destroyed the Kingdom of Hawaii, has an anodyne description here. Each book has a detailed table of contents, but no index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Sara Lorimer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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