This colorful picture book uses the biblical story of Noah’s Ark as the setting for a tale declaring how it came to be that each animal has it’s own familiar sound.  Bright paintings depict the time before the ark, with elephants quacking, pigs howling, etc.  Noah keeps having to bark at them for quiet to cut through the confusion.  Once on the ark, in the interest of maintaining order, each animal is assigned the noise we associate with them today.