The Sound of All Things

How do you describe a sound to someone who is deaf? In The Sounds of All Things, a little boy and his parents are at the boardwalk, where his father is asking him to describe how things sound. Both his parents are deaf, which means they cannot hear. The boy doesn’t know how to describe what waves sound like. The family goes to the library and librarian shows the boy a poetry book. The boy listens to the sounds in his neighborhood and tries to imagine what it would be like to be deaf. He reads his poetry book and can’t wait to be able to describe The Sounds of All Things to his father.

I really liked The Sounds of All Things. I have never thought about what it would be like to be deaf. The illustrations are really nice to look at and are not like any other book I’ve read. There is so much detail in the backgrounds, like a painting you would see hanging on a wall. What made this book even more interesting was the back of the book—the author describes that both his parents were deaf and he was always asked to describe sounds to his father.