ROSEMARY SYLVIA –ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATOR – BRISBANE AUSTRALIA

Rose’s review of What Noise Does a Giraffe Make?

Cunningly cute, convincingly clever, and confoundingly a conundrum, What Noise Does a Giraffe Make?, makes use of all these ploys in its call to a curiosity, which does not kill the cat, but rather captures and coaxes the child into probing the world around us. With its play on rhyme and use of onomatopoeia to distract from the earnest query, the creative father in the dialogue attempts to answer with a patronizing pat, a sympathetic stroke, but the strident questioner will have none of this digression, ‘No! Not dogs, Daddy…’and the question is repeated. Kitty provides further distraction while Daddy then patiently takes his daughter on verbal sound waves to the farm and zoo, but the phylum list does not yield the answer. Instead, the silent reality of the unanswerable question cloaks the ending with an intriguing realization that not knowing and admitting it is the best answer.

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