Thanks to Netgalley and Annick Press for a free digital copy.

A book about seeking silence, but it's difficult when everything makes a sound! I liked the bold illustrations and the text that will get children to use their imagination and observation skills.

The illustrations were gorgeous but I think the "story" and the picture book as a whole fell a bit flat for me...
What was the point? What were you trying to tell me, what was the message?
It was okay but I wouldn't pick it up for anyone or recommend it in the end.

I hadn’t really thought about how pretty much everywhere we go, there is no true silence. My kids enjoyed this book, especially all the sound words.

This is the perfect bedtime book!

It would be a lot of fun to read out loud with all the noises as the main character searches for silence.

I also like the interactive piece at the end (sliding your finger along the page) where you start looking for noises instead of silence.

Even in the black and white version the graphics are engaging. I can only imagine in color it would be even better.

A fun read about our noisy, chaotic world. Interestingly, this unique picture book pays tribute to the little sounds we often overlook and shows how not all noise is bad. I like the minimalist colour palette, though the artwork feels a bit messy.

This book was captivating with its black and white pictures. Lena Shamshurina knows how to draw in the eye with the details on each and every page. Silence would be a perfect book to introduce sound in a science lesson or even onomatopoeia in a writing lesson for all elementary grades. I could even see upper elementary teachers utilizing this story to open up a discussion about why there is a lack of silence in our world. What a versatile book with beautiful and whimsical drawings to draw in a wide audience! I look forward to using this in my own classroom to engage my students.

I received this arc in exchange for my honest review.

This was a great book to figure out where one can actually find silence and what silence actually is. I loved that words of sounds (the onomatopoeias) were spelled out in the illustrations!