A Sound Like Someone Trying Not To Make A Sound - John Irving
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 A Sound Like Someone Trying Not To Make A Sound - John Irving
Newest Review: ... of this storybook and so do my daughters, as it is so intriguing. Before you even open up to the first page you can't help ... more  ... wondering what this sound might be. Therefore there was a great deal of anticipation before we even started reading! At the start of the story you see a very remote house at night and the reader is told that:
'Tom woke up, but Tim did not. It was the middle of the night.'
I was a bit worried at this point that the author might be implying that Tim was dead and whether this was then a suitable book to read with my daughters but don't worry - he is not. It is just that Tim slept through whatever it was that caused h...more |
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A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make aSound
Pages: 40, Hardcover, Doubleday Books for Young Readers Last Update 25.12.2009 05:45
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A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make aSound
Pages: 40, Hardcover, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Last Update 25.12.2009 05:45
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A Sound Like Someone Trying Not To Make A Sound - John Irving: So what was it then?? (753 words)
by - written on 23/10/09 (Very useful, 137 readings)
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When I visited the library with my daughters the other day, and while they were happily browsing all the amazing picture books, I found myself drawn to a title that seemed a little familiar although at the time I did not know why. The book was 'A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound' and I slipped it in my daughters' selections in order to take a look at it later. It was only later at home when I realised that the book was written by John Irving that I made the connection. This children's novel features in John Irving's novel 'A Widow for One Year' and the subsequent film of the book - 'The Door in the Floor' which I have recently watched (and also ... Read the complete review
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