#11- Roar of a Snore

#11-Roar of a Snore

Roar of a Snore

Written by: Marsha Diane Arnold

Illustrated by: Pierre Pratt

Dial Books for Young Readers
2006

32 pages

Poetry

This book is about the Huffle family. Jake could not sleep one night and it was all because of snoring. It was a loud snore. He woke up the dog, Mama Gwyn, Baby Sue, Papa Ben, and the twins but they could still hear the snore. They went to their barn to wake the animals and they could still hear the snore. The animals and the family looked around the barn and they found what was making the noise. It was a cute little kitten snoring. So all the animals and the family slept together in the barn and they made one loud snore.

Pierre Pratt used acrylic paints on paper to create the illustrations. Since the setting of the book is at night, the colors that are used are darker colors. These are colors like midnight blue, brown, dark red, and dark green. Cool colors and warm colors are used in the illustrations. The text is placed informally around the illustrations. The line of the book is very jagged in some pictures to show energy while they are looking for the sound. The pictures are horizontal when the people or animals are sleeping. Some negative space is use on a few pages when characters are walking to find the snoring sound. The shapes lack definition and some are rigid. The illustrations look like you could feel the texture because of the mixture of different colored paints. The paint is mixed with different colors to add texture and shadows to the illustrations.  

This book is appropriate for preschool and up. This book would be great to use to teach students about rhyming words. It would also be a good health lesson to teach students about snoring and sleeping. You could teach students about families using this book as well. The book Roar of a Snore has been chosen twice for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Marsha Diane Arnold has received other awards for her other books like Ridgeway Award for Best First Book, State Children’s Choice Awards, IRA Distinguished Book, and Smithsonian Notable Book. Roar of a Snore is a great example of her award-winning work. 

This is a cute video of a son reading to his parents. He is about three or four years old.