"The mayor of the noisy city of La Paz institutes new laws forbidding all singing, but a brave little rooster decides he must sing, despite the progressively severe punishments he receives for continuing to crow. The silenced populace, invigorated by the rooster's bravery, ousts the tyrannical mayor and returns their city to its free and clamorous state."--

Owl takes drastic measures to have a good night's sleep.

Early in the morning, a bird begins to sing at number One Fish Street, waking the man next door and his dog, and before long, as one noise leads to another, everyone on the street is awake.

"In the shadow of Mount Hood, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie when the girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams. From out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. But the sound only gets worse ..."--

Monkey Mike is reprimanded for making noise when he taps pencils and clangs trash cans until he sees a drum set in the music store and puts his hands-on talents to work in a most impressive way.

Bella's enthusiasm, and her very loud voice, almost ruin a field trip to the art museum, but when she accidentally gets on the wrong bus at the end of the day, her shouting comes in handy.

"The mayor of the noisy city of La Paz institutes new laws forbidding all singing, but a brave little rooster decides he must sing, despite the progressively severe punishments he receives for continuing to crow. The silenced populace, invigorated by the rooster's bravery, ousts the tyrannical mayor and returns their city to its free and clamorous state." -- publisher.

Even though the mayor of the noisy city of La Paz institutes new laws forbidding all singing, a brave little rooster decides he must sing, despite the progressively severe punishments he receives for continuing to crow.

Words about sound and noise illustrate the letters of the alphabet.

As young vampire Vlad gets ready for bed, his imagination takes over with every noise he hears until he learns to calm himself down and finds comfort in his tired mama's reassurances.