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Clang! Clang! Beep! Beep!: Listen To The City (2009)

by Robert Burleigh(Favorite Author)

3.49 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1416940529 (ISBN13: 9781416940524)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books

review 1: I love the boldness of the colours- each ones is mostly flat and unadulterated by shades and tints. Instead, shapes and textures are created by letting other colours show through as if just using a light brushstroke. The artist's technique of using the computer to create the illustrations could come off as flat but instead is used to create just the perfect stroke for each element of the pictures. The backgrounds avoid flatness by having little flecks of colour occasionally "seep through." Lots of contrasting colours are used and unexpected combinations which keep things lively. I love how the orange light appears from the purpley blue on the very first two page spread, annoucing the morning. These illustrations are great for the youngest children, babies and prescho... moreolers, simple and bright, and match the limited rhyming text. I love how the onomatopoeia interrupts the 8 syllable long couplets, which could get annoying very quickly if read exclusively. Despite being a "loud" and busy book, this could also be appropriate for bedtime with the softness of its ending, portraying the changing nature of the city.
review 2: I wanted to like this book about noises a lot more than I did. Giacobbe's art was effective in places, but the depiction of this New York-sized city was disturbing in its shortcomings. For example, every person drawn in this book, when their eye color was shown, had blue eyes. There were only two people in the whole city of non-white ethnicity, and they were portrayed as tough construction workers. Some of the rhymes were forced or awkward, such as "strutting" with "shortcutting." less

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