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What Sound Is Morning?
This beautiful companion to What Color Is Night? helps children explore and celebrate their morning routines.
At the first morning light, everything is quiet. Or is it?
Listen.
Welcome the day by exploring the subtle wonders—and exciting sounds—of the morning with this lyrical and picturesque story.
In the first morning light, all might seem quiet. In this companion to What Color Is Night? Grant Snider explores the sounds—and silences—of morning. Ending in an inspiring call to action—to toss off the covers, throw open the window, and fill the world with your song—this uplifting book is sure to help families feel ready to face the day. With bright art as exuberant as the rooster's crow, and humorous text celebrating the chipper alarm, the rumbling stomach, and the clanking garbage truck, What Sound Is Morning? is a moving and timeless look at the way each of us begins every day.
• A perfect book to help children establish healthy sleeping and waking habits and morning routines
• A morning read-aloud book! Help start the day right with this exuberant and positive tale.
• Grant Snider, the creator of Incidental Comics, has over 35,000 fans on Instagram.
For fans of lyrical, beautiful picture books like Today, Good Morning, City, and Before Morning, What Sound Is Morning? will appeal to children who wish to see their world from a new perspective.
At the first morning light, everything is quiet. Or is it?
Listen.
Welcome the day by exploring the subtle wonders—and exciting sounds—of the morning with this lyrical and picturesque story.
In the first morning light, all might seem quiet. In this companion to What Color Is Night? Grant Snider explores the sounds—and silences—of morning. Ending in an inspiring call to action—to toss off the covers, throw open the window, and fill the world with your song—this uplifting book is sure to help families feel ready to face the day. With bright art as exuberant as the rooster's crow, and humorous text celebrating the chipper alarm, the rumbling stomach, and the clanking garbage truck, What Sound Is Morning? is a moving and timeless look at the way each of us begins every day.
• A perfect book to help children establish healthy sleeping and waking habits and morning routines
• A morning read-aloud book! Help start the day right with this exuberant and positive tale.
• Grant Snider, the creator of Incidental Comics, has over 35,000 fans on Instagram.
For fans of lyrical, beautiful picture books like Today, Good Morning, City, and Before Morning, What Sound Is Morning? will appeal to children who wish to see their world from a new perspective.
48 pages, Hardcover
First published May 12, 2020
About the author
Grant Snider
17 books616 followersGrant Snider began drawing and writing before he knew what he was doing. Soon it was too late to stop.
He is the author of the picture books WHAT COLOR IS NIGHT? and WHAT SOUND IS MORNING? and the creator of Incidental Comics. His comics were collected and published in the books THE SHAPE OF IDEAS and I WILL JUDGE YOU BY YOUR BOOKSHELF. Grant's comics about creativity and the human condition have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Best American Comics.
Grant lives in Wichita, Kansas with his wife, daughter, and three sons, where he also practices orthodontics. You can often find him carrying a sketchbook, lost in his own thoughts.
He is the author of the picture books WHAT COLOR IS NIGHT? and WHAT SOUND IS MORNING? and the creator of Incidental Comics. His comics were collected and published in the books THE SHAPE OF IDEAS and I WILL JUDGE YOU BY YOUR BOOKSHELF. Grant's comics about creativity and the human condition have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Best American Comics.
Grant lives in Wichita, Kansas with his wife, daughter, and three sons, where he also practices orthodontics. You can often find him carrying a sketchbook, lost in his own thoughts.
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December 27, 2021
Absolutely beautiful!
This book reminds me a lot of those Studio Ghibli movies I adore. You know the detailed art that makes you appreciate your daily life a little more? Yeah, that. I picked it up on a whim but I don't regret my decision since it made my afternoon better!
It was so short, I'm kind of guilty that It'll be counted in my reading challenge but then last year the shortest book I read had probably three whole pages. Do read it if you want. The worse thing that can happen is you wasting your precious two minutes.
4 refreshing stars
This book reminds me a lot of those Studio Ghibli movies I adore. You know the detailed art that makes you appreciate your daily life a little more? Yeah, that. I picked it up on a whim but I don't regret my decision since it made my afternoon better!
It was so short, I'm kind of guilty that It'll be counted in my reading challenge but then last year the shortest book I read had probably three whole pages. Do read it if you want. The worse thing that can happen is you wasting your precious two minutes.
4 refreshing stars
September 19, 2022
Aww what a beautiful book cover !
August 14, 2021
تصاویری چشم نواز. هر صفحه مثل یک تابلوی نقاشی با جزئیاتی دوست داشتنی بود.
December 9, 2020
Is it all quiet in the morning? Absolutely not. This illustrated one just with its captions describes the morning. Yes! The moments of morning! The chirping of birds, whispers in leaves, sun peeps through the window quietly. All the sounds we hear everyday can't seek our ordinary minds' attention. People are very busy with all the works. Having a peaceful mind to catch & enjoy the sound of morning is a great thing ever!
I don't know why this book is making me emotional reminding me John Denver's-
~9 December, 2020
I don't know why this book is making me emotional reminding me John Denver's-
Life is old there, older than the treesSometimes, it is good to be reminded something precious🧡
Younger than the mountains, growing like a breeze.
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong🎵
~9 December, 2020
August 23, 2020
i absolutely love how all of Grant’s books teach you to appreciate life, and to make the small moments count. his books never fail to instill warmth inside you, and this was no different. i gave this book a warm hug at the end. ❤️
May 24, 2022
"Today is a melody
still to be written,
today is a tune
no one's heard before."
There couldn't have been a better way to become mindful of the mornings! Simple words, with simple drawings, yet so profound in its essence.
still to be written,
today is a tune
no one's heard before."
There couldn't have been a better way to become mindful of the mornings! Simple words, with simple drawings, yet so profound in its essence.
March 6, 2020
Richie’s Picks: WHAT SOUND IS MORNING? by Grant Snider, Chronicle, May 2020, 48p., ISBN: 978-1-4521-7993-3
“Dawn is a feeling
A beautiful ceiling
The smell of grass
Just makes you pass
Into a dream”
-- The Moody Blues (1967)
“What sound is morning?
Lights click on,
a cat softly creeps
a baby babbles
wind whispers in leaves.”
Are you a morning person? I am! Sometimes the dawn is a step ahead of me, but oftentimes I’m the one with the head start on the day.
Saturated in early morning shades of gold, rose, indigo, mauve, and mint, WHAT SOUND IS MORNING? is a poetic celebration of the early morning sounds you might hear if you focus your attention and listen.
Clanking garbage trucks; sprinklers hissing on summer lawns; frogs croaking in a stream; a man hollering toward the pulling-away bus he just missed. There is playfulness in the collection of sounds that author/illustrator Grant Snider has woven into this lyrical picture book.
WHAT SOUND IS MORNING? concludes with a call to:
“...greet the new day
with a stretch and a yawn
throw open the window
and fill the world
with your song.”
A lovely read-aloud for morning circle.
Richie Partington, MLIS
Richie's Picks http://richiespicks.pbworks.com
https://www.facebook.com/richiespicks/
[email protected]
“Dawn is a feeling
A beautiful ceiling
The smell of grass
Just makes you pass
Into a dream”
-- The Moody Blues (1967)
“What sound is morning?
Lights click on,
a cat softly creeps
a baby babbles
wind whispers in leaves.”
Are you a morning person? I am! Sometimes the dawn is a step ahead of me, but oftentimes I’m the one with the head start on the day.
Saturated in early morning shades of gold, rose, indigo, mauve, and mint, WHAT SOUND IS MORNING? is a poetic celebration of the early morning sounds you might hear if you focus your attention and listen.
Clanking garbage trucks; sprinklers hissing on summer lawns; frogs croaking in a stream; a man hollering toward the pulling-away bus he just missed. There is playfulness in the collection of sounds that author/illustrator Grant Snider has woven into this lyrical picture book.
WHAT SOUND IS MORNING? concludes with a call to:
“...greet the new day
with a stretch and a yawn
throw open the window
and fill the world
with your song.”
A lovely read-aloud for morning circle.
Richie Partington, MLIS
Richie's Picks http://richiespicks.pbworks.com
https://www.facebook.com/richiespicks/
[email protected]
August 3, 2023
Today is a melody, still to be written
স্নিগ্ধকর এক সকাল আর তার নিজস্ব ধ্বনির গুঞ্জরন নিয়ে সুন্দর একখান চিত্রময় বই।
স্নিগ্ধকর এক সকাল আর তার নিজস্ব ধ্বনির গুঞ্জরন নিয়ে সুন্দর একখান চিত্রময় বই।
June 18, 2021
Just what I needed today...
I am going to add this to my challenge shelf because short or not, this was beautiful.
I am going to add this to my challenge shelf because short or not, this was beautiful.
December 9, 2020
I didn't read this kinda book earlier.Simply enchanting!
March 31, 2022
و بعد از what color is night نتونستم جلوی خودمو بگیرم و what sound is morning رو شروع کردم :>
اگر بخوام راستشو بگم اینو به اندازه ی what color is night دوست نداشتم ولی بازممم جایگاه خودشو توی قلبم داره و با تمام وجودم از متنش ، تصویراش و حسی که منتقل می کرد لذت بردم ✨
از نویسنده اش واقعا ممنونم که با وجود اوردن این زیبا باعث آرامش روح و ذهنم شد 🥲🤏🏻
*تصویراش و متنش رو ببینید می فهمید چرا :)
اگر بخوام راستشو بگم اینو به اندازه ی what color is night دوست نداشتم ولی بازممم جایگاه خودشو توی قلبم داره و با تمام وجودم از متنش ، تصویراش و حسی که منتقل می کرد لذت بردم ✨
از نویسنده اش واقعا ممنونم که با وجود اوردن این زیبا باعث آرامش روح و ذهنم شد 🥲🤏🏻
*تصویراش و متنش رو ببینید می فهمید چرا :)
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November 4, 2023Nice, warm and the art style is awesome ...
March 14, 2020
Although I enjoy the nighttime as life's pace slows down or speeds up, depending on what's going on around me, I've always been a morning person, eager to get going on my daily tasks, even if those only involve feeding the cats and reading my books. There's just something about watching the day unfold and listening, as the author entreats us, to the sounds of morning unfolding. It's not as quiet as someone might think. The mention of lawn sprinklers coming on, traffic building on the freeway, garbage trucks making their rounds, and someone making breakfast capture the start of a new day effectively. The final pages encourage readers to embrace the new day with all its possibilities just like those birds perching on those electric power lines along the streets. Readers may enjoy reading this book and thinking about their own morning routines, and maybe even turn around those grumpy attitudes to positive ones as they consider the new day's possibilities. I enjoyed the vivid hues used in the illustrations, created with ink and then digitally colored, since they include vivid purples, oranges, reds, and yellows effectively, and then conclude with a page filled with greens, blues, and pinks. This picture book would be a nice companion for the author's previous What Color Is Night?
December 5, 2020
Enchanting!
December 6, 2020
সরল আর সুন্দর সব ছবিতায় ভরা বইটা স্নাইডারের "হোয়াট কালার ইয নাইট"-এর যমজ বোন।
April 5, 2021
This lovely book reminded me with the opening theme of the movie La La Land :)
May 25, 2022
A lovely book about morning sounds, reminding us that everyone should just take a minute and think and listen, we rush so often, we forget to appreciate the morning beauty.
April 22, 2023
another super creative, meditative, book that doubles as a work of art. I love reading this one with my little one and thinking about all the sounds we remember hearing in the mornings. this series could really go on and on
March 17, 2023
-تاریخ خوانش حدودی-
همه چیز کتاب رو دوست داشتم. از جنس تصویرسازیاش، تا آنچه توجه کودک رو بهش جلب میکنه.
از خلاقیتش در انتخاب چیزی که بهش نگاه میکنه، تا مدل روایتش که قطعا منجر به ایجاد خلاقیت در کودک میشه.
کیف کردم. :)
همه چیز کتاب رو دوست داشتم. از جنس تصویرسازیاش، تا آنچه توجه کودک رو بهش جلب میکنه.
از خلاقیتش در انتخاب چیزی که بهش نگاه میکنه، تا مدل روایتش که قطعا منجر به ایجاد خلاقیت در کودک میشه.
کیف کردم. :)
September 12, 2021
Good Morning!
February 8, 2022
Suara apa yang biasa kau dengar saat pagi?
Biasanya saat bangun tidur yang pertama kali saya dengar adalah gemericik air dan ikan di aquarium, ayam berkokok, dan yang paling istimewa – dentingan alat masak yang Ibu gunakan di dapur.
Biasanya saat bangun tidur yang pertama kali saya dengar adalah gemericik air dan ikan di aquarium, ayam berkokok, dan yang paling istimewa – dentingan alat masak yang Ibu gunakan di dapur.
Today is a melody still to be written,
today is a tune no one’s heard before.
So greet the new day with a stretch and a yawn
throw open the window
and fill the world with your song.
December 15, 2020
In the first morning light, all is quiet. Or is it?
Ada suara burung, ada suara alarm, ada suara saklar lampu dinyalakan, ada suara angin di antara dedaunan.
today is a melody still to be written, today is a tune no one's heard before
so greet the new day with a stretch and a yawn, throw open the window
and fill the world with your song
Ada suara burung, ada suara alarm, ada suara saklar lampu dinyalakan, ada suara angin di antara dedaunan.
today is a melody still to be written, today is a tune no one's heard before
so greet the new day with a stretch and a yawn, throw open the window
and fill the world with your song
March 5, 2024
The color scheme is so pretty!! The enveloping warmth of the morning can be felt on the color scheme and the overall atmosphere of the book. I felt losing big time that I read this on a black and white paperwhite!! Such a shame!! Anyway, Grant Snider is so wholesome, the reason I love him so much!!
May 27, 2020
This book is strikingly unique, from the earthy-abstract, subject matter, to the trippy-tranquil palette of the illustrations. A real stand-out.
September 25, 2021
So calming ;)
November 28, 2021
The colour palette and the text felt really soothing.
December 19, 2021
Such a nice short book it is!! Kinda changes the way you greet your morning❤
June 30, 2022
It is like a nostalgia for the morning-person in me🤗🤗🤩🤩
July 11, 2022
finished this in one sitting 🐙
another heartwarming book for my reading-escape 😶🌫️ i like the simple illustrations with the color coordination <3 might read the other book later!!
another heartwarming book for my reading-escape 😶🌫️ i like the simple illustrations with the color coordination <3 might read the other book later!!
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