Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!: A Sonic Adventure

by Wynton Marsalis, Paul Rogers (Illustrator)

Overview

The creators of Jazz ABZ are back for an encore! With infectious rhythm and rhyme, musical master Wynton Marsalis opens kids’ ears to the sounds around us.

What’s that sound? The back door squeeeaks open, sounding like a noisy mouse nearby — eeek, eeeek, eeeek! Big trucks on the highway rrrrrrrumble, just as hunger makes a tummy grrrrumble. Ringing with exuberance and auditory delights, this second collaboration by world-renowned jazz musician and composer Wynton Marsalis and acclaimed illustrator Paul Rogers takes readers (and listeners) on a rollicking, clanging, clapping tour through the many sounds that fill a neighborhood.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781536221961
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	11/02/2021
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	667,641
Product dimensions:	11.06(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.16(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Wynton Marsalis, trumpeter, composer, and tireless champion of jazz, is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and the winner of nine Grammy Awards. The artistic director for the Jazz at Lincoln Center program, he lives in New York City.

Paul Rogers has created everything from billboard portraits at Dodger Stadium to a silkscreen portrait of Wynton Marsalis for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. He lives in Pasadena, California.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Onomatopoeic words will challenge readers and delight listeners . . . Rogers’ hip, playfully cartoonish spreads pop with clever visual allusions to jazz tunes and players. Loud and clear, the creators show how tuning into everyday sounds can inspire music. Clap, clap, CLAP!
—Kirkus Reviews

This exuberant articulation of sounds both subtle and grandiose is sure to inspire closer listening and creative responses.
—School Library Journal

Warm up those vocal chops and get ready for the swingingest read-aloud of the year.
—Booklist

Editorial Reviews

Rogers’s pictures recall the delightful Hirschfeld tribute in the “Rhapsody in Blue” segment of Disney’s “Fantasia 2000” — kicky lines and outlines in a whirl of motion. “I huz- huzz- huzzz a kazoo when I gets the mood,” the young narrator exults. Readers will huzz right along.
—New York Times

Onomatopoeic words will challenge readers and delight listeners . . . Rogers’ hip, playfully cartoonish spreads pop with clever visual allusions to jazz tunes and players. Loud and clear, the creators show how tuning into everyday sounds can inspire music. Clap, clap, CLAP!
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Warm up those vocal chops and get ready for the swingingest read-aloud of the year.
—Booklist (starred review)

This exuberant articulation of sounds both subtle and grandiose is sure to inspire closer listening and creative responses.
—School Library Journal (starred review)

Booklist called it "the swingingest read-aloud of the year." School Library Journal made it a "pick of the day." We suspect that a lot of New Orleans Santas will be making this one a pick of the day, too.
—NOLA.com (Times-Picayune)

From the Publisher

…[a] rollicking look at the complementary auditory delights of a child's world and an orchestra's worth of instruments.
—Pamela Paul

The New York Times Book Review

PreS-Gr 1—Who better to lead children in a celebration of sound than jazz virtuoso Wynton Marsalis? From the "tluck…tlock" of a dripping faucet and the "Chrrick chrrrick" of toast being buttered to the noises of trucks, drums, and washboards, the musician gives voice to the sounds enveloping an African American boy throughout the day. The setting, established by the wrought iron balconies on the title page and furthered in contextual clues, is the birthplace of jazz (and Marsalis)-New Orleans. The retro style of the instruments on the endpapers will immediately connect readers familiar with Langston Hughes's First Book of Jazz (Watts, 1955) to Cliff Roberts's jaunty and decorative designs in that landmark introduction, adding another layer of appreciation. Rogers's lively ink and digital illustrations, with strong black lines; a controlled palette; visual quotes from Roberts; and intent, closed-eyed musicians, echo and continue the rhythmic exploration. The font conveying the sounds sashays and slithers around the images; printed in orange, it varies in size and weight to indicate volume. In one dynamic spread, four "Pizzicato violinists plick-pluck licks," with the one farthest away playing the softest (smallest) "tlick!" Floating against a white background, pictures and text read well from a distance; they practically call out for sharing with a group of eager noisemakers. The penultimate image is the boy with a horn, bringing to mind another famous New Orleans native. This exuberant articulation of sounds both subtle and grandiose is sure to inspire closer listening and creative responses.—Wendy Lukehart, Washington DC Public Library

School Library Journal

Marsalis and Rogers, who collaborated on the scintillating Jazz ABZ (2005), reunite for this sonic celebration for the younger crowd. Marsalis contributes 10 three-line verses that crackle with invented sound words. Most verses link a couple of everyday sounds with one made by a musical instrument: "Big trucks on the highway RRRRUMBLE. / Hunger makes my tummy GRrruMBle. / The big bass drum goes "Bum! Brrrum! BRRRUMBLE!!!!" Rogers' digitally colored ink drawings depict a New Orleans setting. The narrator, an African-American boy in white high-tops, exudes curiosity and cool (and plays trumpet). Those onomatopoeic words, elegantly red-dressed in Caslon 540 Italic, will challenge readers and delight listeners. Marsalis' choices seem just right: "Chrrrick chrrrick chrrrick chrrrick--buttering my toast." An upright bass emits "Doom, Doom, Doom, Blap! Doom, Doom, Slap!" Rogers' hip, playfully cartoonish spreads pop with clever visual allusions to jazz tunes and players. Hand-lettered lyrics to a popular funeral song blow out of a church band's instruments; indeed, the tuba's bell forms the "O" for "O[h] didn't he ramble." An ambulance's side reads "U.M.M.G. Ambulance," a brilliant reference to the Billy Strayhorn tune whose titular acronym means "Upper Manhattan Medical Group." The final spread rounds up a cacophony of sounds, from "Squeak" and "Schuk-chuk" to "BAP!" Loud and clear, the creators show how tuning into everyday sounds can inspire music. Clap, clap, CLAP! (Picture Book. 3-7)

Kirkus Reviews