In addition, I have neglected educational videos and electronic games, which may be noisy but are rarely driven by sound-plots. Nor have I systematically searched the thousands of lullabies, poems, and stories in children s periodicals or in collections of folktales retold for children. Entire genres are generally absent: comic books, introductions to all five (or more) senses, music appreciation texts, phonics series. Prussing, Bill Rable and Libby Reuter, David G. Most of the titles are Anglophone picture books that I have had in my hands (or in the hands of friends and here I must thank Harold Boll, Laura Nelson, Jane and Jeremy Palin, Anne S. This bibliography is neither global nor comprehensive. Although authors of works for children often use rhyme, alliteration, and onomatopoeia, the titles listed here have plots or themes explicitly driven by sounds, by issues of loudness or quietness, by a quest for silence or for the source of an unfamiliar, hidden, or disturbing noise. 1 C h i l d r e n s B o o k s My conclusions concerning historical shifts in (attitudes toward) the noisiness of children are based upon my reading of the following children s books.
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