Author: Marsha Diane Arnold

Illustrator: Pierre Pratt

Publisher and year: Puffin Books 2008

Number of pages: 30

Genre: Fiction

Roar of a Snore is about a boy who is woken up by a very loud snore and he goes on a hunt to figure out who is snoring so loud. In a series of events he wakes his family and friends up to see if they are the snoring person and then they wake up and help the boy find the snorer. In the end it turns out that the snoring person is actually a tiny cat and the family ends up sleeping in the barn with all their animals and the tiny snoring cat.

This text would function as a window for readers since they are looking into what is happening and the plot is something that they probably will not go through. If the reader is someone who lives on a farm they might be able to connect with the images since there are a lot of farm animals within the book. Sadly culture is poorly represented in this book; there are no characters of color, just a white family living on a farm. The images at first are pretty plain and not that much going on but once the boy starts waking up his family members the images get more and more hectic and detailed. The images have a lot of different colors that are not too bright, this makes it feel more like it is at night. The pages are full with images and the only time white is seen is where the text is. Since the images are not framed the reader gets the feeling that they are going on the hunt with the boy and his family to find the snorer. In the images the people are all facing the right while they are trying to find the snorer, this shows that they are moving forward after waking someone up and finding out they are not the snorer. Once they are able to find the snoring cat they face the left, which shows they are no longer moving forward in the story since they have found the snorer. I did not see a lesson that was supposed to be learned from this text; Roar of a Snore is meant to be more of a comedy that doesn’t have much meaning behind. It was a cute story that was fun to follow since a whole farm was woken up by a tiny cat.