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The Quiet Book

Added to the Lisbon Public Library in honor of Landon Kenneth Knox. Children's Literature: The animals arranged across the jacket, fingers on shushing lips, and the bunnies asleep under books on the cover, assure us that this is indeed a quiet book. Many kinds of quiet are noted, one per page, from: "First one awake quiet" and "Hide-and-seek quiet," through the many quiets through the day at school, home, and play. Finally we reach the "Story time quiet," "Bedtime kiss quiet," and "Sound asleep quiet," for a perfect good-night read-aloud. Liwska's matching quiet pictures are subtle pencil drawings, colored digitally in tones of mainly brown and gray of a variety of appealing anthropomorphic stuffed animals in occasional contexts. The images seem designed to encourage us to slow down as we observe the implications of caption-like text and illustration, and fall asleep with a smile. Reviewer: Ken Marantz and Sylvia Marantz