Cat the Cat's animal friends make many different sounds.

"One day a tiny cricket is born. He meets a big cricket who chirps his welcome. The tiny cricket tries to respond, but he cannot make a sound. And so the cricket makes his way in the world, meeting one insect after another who greets him with a cheery hello."--Page 4 of cover.

All the farm animals are where they should be, clucking and mucking, mewing and cooing, except for the missing goose.

Animals and the sounds they make are paired up in this colorful picture book.

"What messages do animals send to each other using sound? How can we decipher them? What lessons might these messages offer for understanding the origins and workings of our own communication? Scientists who study bioacoustics try and answer these questions, using physiology, animal behavior, and evolutionary biology to understand how and why animals communicate via sound. In this book, Nicholas Mathevon offers readers an accessible overview of the...

Different animals--including seals, tigers, geese, rabbits, monkeys, and more--make their own sounds as they ride all around the town on a bus.

As darkness falls in the forest, animals hoot, chirp, whirr, and bark, lulling drowsy children to sleep.

Brief text introduces the concept of loud and quiet, comparing some of the world's loudest animals with animals that are quiet.

"Easy-to-read, rhythmic text about a group of farm animals, led by a tenacious duck, who play a noisy game together."--