Editorial Review

“[This] earnest entr[y] in the controlled-vocabulary category [is]. . . successful. . . [S]upports new readers through short sentences, text of nine or fewer lines per page, and no surprising vocabulary. Noise! presents two boys and a girl who drum, hum, and strum their families and their teacher to distraction. When the teacher suggests forming a band, the ‘Good Deals’ are born. . . The posed photographs, cropped so as to reveal no background, give the book plenty of white space.”

—School Library Journal