The folklore-style story Too Much Noise by Ann McGov­ern is a nice repet­i­tive story filled with ani­mal noises the kids can join in with. For those unfa­mil­iar with the book, an old man is dis­turbed by the noises in his house (creaky bed, wind in the trees, hiss­ing ket­tle, etc.) and seeks advice from a wise man (I mod­elled mine on a Bud­dhist monk). The wise man keeps telling him to bring ani­mals into his house. When the ani­mal noise is dri­ving the old man crazy and the wise man tells him to remove the ani­mals, the creaky bed, etc. seem quiet and comforting.

Rather than try to make a house every­thing would fit in, I just made a roof.

As you can see, it was still hard fit­ting all the ani­mals in! No won­der he was over­whelmed by the noise.

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