A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound

A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound (Doubleday Books for Young Readers, September 28, 2004, ISBN 0-385-74680-6) is a children's picture book by John Irving

John Irving

John Winslow Irving is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978...

, and is also a story from the 1998 novel A Widow for One Year
A Widow for One Year
A Widow for One Year is a 1998 bestselling work of fiction by John Irving, the ninth of his novels to be published.The first section of the novel was made into the movie The Door in the Floor in 2004.-First section:...

, also by Irving.

Plot summary

It takes place in a house somewhere, maybe in New England. It starts when one little child, asleep in his bed, hears a sound, "a sound like someone trying not to make a sound". It turns out to be mice in the walls, and the child is comforted by his parent. They go back to bed.

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