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Buzz! Boom! Bang!: The Book of Sounds

Benjamin Gottwald, illustrated by Benjamin Gottwald

This wordless interactive picture book presents sounds through bold, unusual illustrations. Readers are prompted to supply noises such as bangs, booms, caws, crashes, buzzes, whooshes, yawns, moos, and roars, then turn the page and continue. With no printed words, the book is built around matching vocal sounds to the images on each page.

This book appears on 3 reading lists across 1 edition from 3 organizations.

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Book details

Themes
Humor · Imagination · Language And Communication
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
NorthSouth Books
Published
September 30, 2025
Pages
168
ISBN-13
9780735846036
Language
English
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