By Louise Greig (author) , David Litchfield (illustrator)
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A stunning new illustrated children's book exploring deafness, friendship and the universal ways in which we can all communicate.
One girl can't hear the noisy world around her. In her ears, those sounds are sleeping. But she has found sounds that are hiding . . .
Between the notes of a song. Between the beats of a wing . Between those sounds are my sounds. And I listen.
What if someone in the noisy world listened to the beauty and magic of the silent things, too? Perhaps they might discover the sound of a smile; or even better, the sound of a friend.
Through this hopeful and heartwarming story, author and poet Louise Grieg has drawn from her own experience to portray the feeling of isolation that can come with deafness.
Brought to life with stunning illustrations from David Litchfield ( The Bear and the Piano ), this is a book to encourage communities - hearing or deaf - to put language barriers aside and come together in friendship.
Louise Greig is an award winning poet and a children's picture book author with a unique, lyrical voice. Her childhood was filled with animals, the poems of Robert Louis Stevenson and picture books by iconic children’s writers such as Margaret Wise Brown, Charlotte Zolotow, Ruth Krauss, Maurice Sendak, Astrid Lindgren and Tove Jansson. Her debut picture book for Egmont The Night Box has been translated into 10 languages and has been nominated for the 2018 Kate Greenaway Medal. Louise lives in Aberdeen and when not writing is a director of a dog rescue and re-homing organisation. The wild solitude of Scotland and the beauty of nature remain strong influences in her life.
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A stunning new illustrated children's book exploring deafness, friendship and the universal ways in which we can all communicate. One girl can't hear the noisy world around her.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Sound of a Smile and determined it is suitable for children aged 5-6 years old
The Sound of a Smile features in the following genres: Featured Books for 5+ readers, Stories about Family and Friends, PSHE: Special educational needs and disability (SEND), Picture storybooks, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships, Recommendations, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), Children’s picture books, Children’s: picture books, activity books, early learning concepts, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Relationships (non-family / groups)
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The Sound of a Smile was written by Louise Greig and published by Orchard Books an imprint of Hachette Children's Group
The Sound of a Smile has 32 pages
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