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Mar 1, 2000 · Ho's later book Hush! A Thai Lullaby, illustrated by Holly Meade was named a Caldecott Honor Book, an ALA Notable Children's Book and The Horn Fanfare Book. Ho's more recent children's book, published by Orchard Books in 2003, is The Stone Goddess, one of the books in the First Person Fiction series. Ho gives a realistic, shocking ...
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Mar 1, 1996 · In this sweet and enchantingly lyrical marriage of text and images, in Minfong Ho's Hush! A Thai Lullaby, a Thai mother repeatedly admonishes the fauna in both her domicile and the neighbouring woods to "hush" (as her baby is supposedly sleeping). The presented onomatopoeic diverse animal sounds (from the wee-wee of a tiny mosquito to the hoom ...
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Hush!: A Thai Lullaby is a 1996 illustrated children's book by Minfong Ho, illustrated by Holly Meade. It won a 1997 Caldecott Honor for Meade's illustrations. The book, as simple story in which a Thai mother putting her child to sleep asks the animals to hush, "Lizard, lizard,/ don't come peeping... ""White duck, white duck/ don't come beeping....
- Minfong Ho, Holly Meade
- 1996
Mar 1, 1996 · Hush! A Thai Lullaby Hardcover – March 1, 1996. by Minfong Ho (Author) 4.8 346 ratings. See all formats and editions. Book Description. Editorial Reviews. A lullaby asks animals such as a lizard, monkey, and water-buffalo to be quiet and not disturb the sleeping baby. Reading age.
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Jan 1, 1996 · Ho's rhymed, repetitive, onomatopoetic text employs the question-and-answer format of Bill Martin's classic Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Holt, 1967), creating a lullaby without music. The lilting sounds, variety of wildlife (monkeys, water buffalo, elephant, etc.), and illustrations firmly anchor this mood piece in northern Thailand.
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Hush! A Thai Lullaby. Set in a remote Thai village, a mother hushes the animals of their jungle home, from lizard to water buffalo to elephant, trying to quiet noises that might wake her child. When the animals are finally silenced the mother falls asleep, but the baby is awake, with wide eyes and a smile. The text is rhythmic and lyrical and ...
