The Noisy Classroom
By Angela Shanté and Alison Hawkins
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Silver Medalist, 2020 Wishing Shelf Book Awards: Books for 6–8 Year Olds
Winner, 2020 American Fiction Awards for Best Cover Design: Children's Books
Finalist, 2020 American Fiction Awards for Children's Fiction
The first day of school is coming… and I'm going to be in the noisy class. Any class but the noisy class will do!
A young girl is about to enter the third grade, but this year she's put into Ms. Johnson's noisy class. Everything about the noisy class is odd. While all the other classes are quiet, Ms. Johnson sings and the kids chatter all day. The door is always closed, yet sounds from it can be heard in the hallway. With summer coming to an end and school starting, the girl realizes that soon she'll be going to the noisy class. What will school be like now?
Featuring the honest and delightful humor of debut author Angela Shanté and the bold, graphic imagery of debut illustrator Alison Hawkins, The Noisy Classroom encourages those with first-day jitters to reevaluate a scary situation by looking at it from a different angle and to embrace how fun school can be, even in nontraditional ways.
Angela Shanté
Angela Shanté is the award-winning author and Kid's Book Choice Awards Nominee of The Noisy Classroom, a picture book about her time as a classroom teacher. Angela received a Master's in Elementary Education with a focus on literacy and later went back to school to receive an MFA in Creative Writing. With one leg in education and the other in the creative world; Angela marries her two passions by creating creative content for young readers across all mediums. Angela currently lives in Southern California with her husband and dog.
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Reviews for The Noisy Classroom
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5First I love the fact that the family and characters in the story are multi-cultural. Secondly as we are all going back to school in uncertain times, the nervousness and uneasiness about changing grades and going into a classroom that seems so different could help ease some of that anxiety for children. Children are so use to a routine of almost always being quite in school that if they see a room like Ms. Johnson's or know they are going to be a part of it it could lead to some uneasy feelings. I also believe that this book, could hep parents and guardians of children feel comfortable with the idea that there is more than one way for a classroom to operate and that teaching methods that may not be the most common at your school can be just as effective. As someone in school working on his Elementary Education and working in schools now, I can totally see this room in schools I have worked and I can even see where maybe not to the degree of this story but I can see myself including pieces of this model in my future classroom. The pictures are delightful and wonderfully bright. I believe this story really can be used at any point but especially at the end of the year to know that yes they are leaving one room and that their class maybe different but they are and will still be cared about. Their teachers are thinking about them while they are home for summer break and planning for what the new year will be.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A sweet story with strong diversity feel though not the theme of this picture book. Going to the next grade can always be apprehensive and the main character does not want to be in the noisy classroom for 3rd grade. Alas, that is the class she is assigned to and beings to consider moving to Antarctica! The artwork is great with more somber tones at the beginning of the book and serious faces, while as a 3rd grader in Ms. Johnson's noisy classroom everything is coming up rainbows with plenty of learning fun!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A fun story, and one that contrasts an older and a newer theory of education with a definite slant to the newer. I wonder how many children would actually feel as reluctant to participate in more interesting education as the main character of this story? I almost think it was targeted more towards parents who feel that to be educated, you have to sit quietly in rows.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book is a cute story that talks about learning through games in modern schools. The main character is a second-grader who is anxious who about going to the third grade because the teacher always has music coming from the room and other unconventional events. The illustrations are beautiful and expressive. They also feature a non-white family, which is refreshing. However, I'm not sure I believe that most children experience the anxiety about "noisy classrooms" that the main character does and feel like the story is really for the parents of those kids. I recommend it especially for school libraries and for children who are nervous about the next grade (in general).
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was such a cute book! I received it for free from Early Reviewers and now it's going to become a prize book for one of our children at the library. The story is about a girl who is going into the third grade and is afraid of the noisy classroom. So much that she wants to move to Antarctica (love the penguins!). Of course, I can't spoil it but she winds up happy at the end. Perfect for any kid who is afraid of change or going to school.