BANG! BOOM! THUD are just a few of the best words in the English language. Every time you hear a sound like CACKLE, BOW-WOW, or HONK-HONK you are hearing an onomatopoeia. Conversely, every time you write a word that is spelled as it sounds such as BUZZ, SMACK, or SPLAT you are writing an Onomatopoeia. Ono-mato-whata? is a book about a day in the life of all the onomatopoeias in Bobby's world.