When a child hears a noise in the night he gets up to investigate. He calls his father to help him and they work through all the things that the 'noise' could be, eventually... more
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Advantages: beautiful, atmospheric children's book Disadvantages: some parents will complain it's too dark - shame on them
As both a die-hard John Irving fan and a lifetime worshipper of really beautiful picture books for children, the knowledge that the two would be combined in one package was hard to resist. And indeed, I'm glad I didn't resist it, as for the most part this was exactly what my expectations had demanded.
A Sound Like Someone Trying Not To Make A Sound first appeared as part of Irving's novel A Widow For One Year. In the novel dry, charming ladies-man ... ...than children), but Irving had a special fondness for A Sound… since this was the one that most reminded him of telling stories to his own children, and he explains in the short, sweet Introduction to this book that he gives it as a gift to Ted Cole because it is "the story that, to me, made the most sense of nightmares". Irving's creation of Ted Cole, he tells us, he is taking to task authors who seek to frighten children - this story seeks to soothe.
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A Sound Like Someone Trying Not To Make A Sound - John Irving
Main specs
Type: Fiction
Genre: Children's
Title: A Sound Like Someone Trying Not To Make A Sound
Author: John Irving
ISBN: 0385746806; 0747572933
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When a child hears a noise in the night he gets up to investigate. He calls his father to help him and they work through all the things that the 'noise' could be, eventually realising that it is nothing to be scared of. An empowering book about over coming ones fears handled with brilliant originality by John Irving and Tatjana Hauptmann.
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