Buzz! Boom! Bang!: The Book of Sounds - Hardcover

by Benjamin Gottwald (Author)

An ALA Notable Children's Book, 2026

A brand-new kind of interactive picture book invites you to make the sounds you see--and inspires endless fun.

This wordless picture book is meant to be read aLOUD!

Can you bang and boom,
caw and crash,
buzz and blub,
pitter-patter and pffffft?

Will you whoosh, yawn, moo or roar? It's easy!

1. Open the book.
2. Make the sound that you see.
3. Giggle, turn the page, repeat.

With bold colors, zany illustrations, and no words at all, Buzz! Boom! Bang! inspires a whole new kind of reading experience.

Author Biography

Benjamin Gottwald lives in Hamburg, Germany, where he works as an illustrator and animator, draws for a magazine, and builds characters out of wood. His first book, Buzz! Boom! Bang!, was an ALA Notable Children's Book (2026) and won the Hamburg Picture Book Prize and the German Youth Literature Award.