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I'd like to thank the publisher and netgalley for providing me a copy of this book in an exchange for an honest review.
I liked the story a lot!

#Funway to introduce #diversity and start a serious discussion about learning other #languages. An excellent book covering many aspects of communication from many parts of the world. The author provides the onomatopoeia of daily sounds providing a wonderful window for the kids around the world. This title will be enjoyed by the families as well. Excellent title for a diverse classroom. Teacher can use this to draw out all the kids in the class to participate using colors, flowers, sports, or equipment such as ball etc. Great opportunity for parents to interact with kids and for kids to interact with elderly relatives or friends. Highly recommended.

Ever since I was a young child, I have always been fascinated by other languages. We learned both French and Spanish at school and I had an aunt from Costa Rica. So they were all around me. I remember thinking it was funny how animals supposedly said different words in other countries. That was when I first learned about onomatopeia, which is what this book is all about.

It's a fun trek around the world to learn how the same sound is interpreted differently in a ton of different languages, with some fun animal facts thrown in. (And did you know that Old MacDonald actually has different names around the world as well?) Their sounds are given in word bubbles next to cute cartoon pictures of each animal. The language is listed underneath. I read a lot of these words using English phonics. It would be nice to have a pronunciation guide to make sure we are saying them correctly, though I did appreciate seeing how these words are spelled in the different languages and alphabets. And I had a major issue with the languages being listed underneath the words and NOT capitalized. That's grammatically incorrect and could lead to kids forgetting to capitalize their languages when writing. The teacher in me was twitching with that part.

The book continues past the animals with other sound words that we encounter in our world, like creaking, knocking, bells ringing, weather, and more. There's also a little bit of history about the theories behind how the different sounds are reproduced in the various languages. It was highly interesting!

Thank you to the publisher for fulfilling my review request via NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Language is weird. We think we understand how things are supposed to sound, at least in the natural world, and shouldn't they all sound exactly the same to all people?

Well, the quick answer is that, other than the sound that cats make, which most of the world agrees sounds a bit like "meow" most other sounds are wildly heard as different things, such as dogs going "ham" instead of bark, in Romanian.

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A fun picture book to thumb through, and see how other people in other countries hear the sounds that we all think are the same. Sometimes the sounds that they use make more sense then those that we have learned to use in English. "Cocoriquo" sounds more like the sound a rooster makes then "Cockadoodledo".

Fun book for adults and children to pour over and laugh or discuss.

Thanks to Netgalleky for making this book available for an honest review.

This comic-like compilation of sounds around the world is just plain fun! I can absolutely see a group of kids sitting around and trying out all the different onomatopoeia from around the world and having a great time. I will absolutely be purchasing this for the juvenile nonfiction collection at my library!

We talk about this often with our students. Love this book so much. Will definitely be buying this one for our library!

A charming book teaching kids all about different sounds from across the world. I loved the diversity of the art and the use of many languages, not just common or popular ones. The text was comprehensive and I think parents will really like this one, and so will kids.