Ex-lib. GFL ( )

Peter goes off to the village wise man to find out what he could do about his noisy house. It seemed like a simple enough problem at the beginning, but more and more complications set in, in the forms of a donkey, a sheep, and a cow, to name a few, until it looked as though an entire farm had come to life right there in Peter’s house!

Too Much Noise is about a man who complain about having too much noise in his house, so goes to town for help. There's lots of repetition throughout the book and a lessen learned in the end. A great read for all ages, but elementary students especially. ( )

Too much noise is a great book to introduce to children because it teaches them levels of sounds. It is also a great book because it has repetition and predictable. I think children will enjoy this book because they would find it funny. The grade levels for this book would be pre-k and up. ( )

A secular version of a Yiddish folktale, "It Could Always Be Worse," good for young children---few words and lots of repetition. The rabbi has been replaced by a wise man and the unhappy occupant of a noisy home lives alone instead of with a large family. Interesting to compare it to Marilyn Hirsh's Could Anything Be Worse?, my favorite version. ( )