The theme of Joyful Noise is the life cycle of insects. Through verbal recreation of the sounds made by insects, the poems relate the birth of bounding grasshoppers and dreaming butterflies, the courtship of lovesick moths and contrary book lice, the death of frenzied mayflies and digger wasps.
In his Newbery acceptance speech, the author told how he selected the insects he would include, "Some were.....
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