Book Drop 2024

Book Drop 2024!

Our Book Drop book this year is ‘The Visible Sounds’ by Yin Jianling and Yu Rong. It is based on a true story of a young girl learning to adapt to the world when she loses her hearing.

Share the story together and follow the discussion points each week. The discussion points will be added to the homework sheet each week. 

The story can be read by child or adult or both together.

Friday 11th October 2024

Front and back cover

Before you start reading explore the front page.

What can you see?

What does the word visible mean?

How does the illustration show ‘Visible Sounds?’

Now read the blurb! How do you think it might feel to experience no sound?

On the inside page who is in the photos on the wall?

Turn the page tho the next illustration – what might be happening here? How do you think they are feeling?

Pages 1-6

What happens to MiLi?

Which adjectives describe how MiLi is feeling?

Can you think of any other words that might describe how you would feel?

Have you ever expressed your feelings with tears?

How might MiLi’s parent’s feel when no doctors can cure her ears?

How does MiLi look?

Pages 7-10

What does the word mischievous mean?

Why is MiLi laughing?

Is there really a tiger on the bus?

Why did MiLi not need to cover her ears at the popcornstand?

Can you feel vibrations in someone’s neck when they speak or from a speaker when it plays music?

Pages 11-14

How does MiLi know the old lorry is making a sound?

Name three different ways that MiLi found sound.

What do the orange swirly lines represent?

Pages 15-22

What has changed in the illustrations in the second half of the book?

Why do you think there is more colour now?

How might MiLi be feeling now?

Pages 23-28

Why are letters beginning to show on the page?

Look at MiLi’s hands – what could she be learning here?

As the floor vibrates MiLi starts dancing to it. What do you think might happen next in her story?

Can you dance without music?