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Non-language Sounds
These "non-language" sounds, also referred to as "onomatopoeia," are great for easing into speech work!
Chicka
Chicka Boom Boom
Bill Martin, Jr. & John Archambault
From Amazon.com
The 26 characters in this rhythmic, rhyming baby book are a lowercase alphabet
with attitude. "A told b, and b told c, 'I'll meet you at the top of the
coconut tree'"--which probably seemed like a good idea until the other
23 members of the gang decided to follow suit. Lois Ehlert's chunky block illustrations
show the luxuriant green palm standing straight and tall on the first page,
but it begins to groan and bend under its alphabetical burden. First the coconuts
fall off, then ("Chicka chicka... BOOM! BOOM!") all the letters also
end up in a big heap underneath. A very simple board-book version stops there,
but this original text goes on to introduce the helping hands of the 26 uppercase
"mamas and papas and uncles and aunts. (Baby to preschool)
--Richard Farr
Listen
to the Desert/Oye Al Desierto
by Pat Mora, Francisco X. Mora (Illustrator)
From Kirkus Reviews
A very simple text, with each line (``Listen to coyote call, ar-ar-aooo, ar-ar-aooo...
``Listen to the wind spin, zoom, zoom, zoom...'') repeated twice in English
plus twice in Spanish, becomes a rhythmic, lyrical bilingual chant suggesting
the onomatopoeic powers of both tongues. Owl, dove, toad, snake, fish, mice,
and rain complete a roster...
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