Wake Up Engines

by Denise Dowling Mortensen, Melissa Iwai (Illustrator)

Overview

From the creators of the luminous GOOD NIGHT ENGINES comes an energetic good-morning book filled with short, rhyming text that fairly bounces off the page, lots of onomatopoeia, and bright, vibrant close-ups of all kinds of vehicles and aircraft. School buses, garbage trucks, street sweepers, helicopters, and more crank up their noisy motors as a little boy climbs out of bed and starts his day. No little engine lover should be without a copy of this winsome book, as dynamic and peppy as its companion was soothing and sleepy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780547533797
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	07/16/2007
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	34 MB
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About the Author

Melissa Iwai  has illustrated many books for young children, as well as the nonfiction picture book Thirty Minutes Over Oregon. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family. Visit her online at melissaiwai.com, on Twitter @meliwai, and on Instagram @melissaiwai1.



DENISE DOWLING MORTENSEN is also the author of the picture book Ohio Thunder. She lives in Chatham, New Jersey with her family.

Editorial Reviews

PreS-Gr 1
In this follow-up to Good Night Engines (Clarion, 2003), a boy greets the new day with the help of his many rigs and vehicles. As he brushes his teeth, he imagines the street sweeper-"City sweeper/rumble, hiss./Scrubbing brushes/SWISH!/SWISH!/SWISH!" The bright acrylic paints are appropriate for a story about waking up and the illustrations are satisfying to look at whether depicting the child or highlighting a vehicle at work.
—Linda M. KentonCopyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

School Library Journal

After having glided into slumber to the soothing cadence of Good Night Engines (2003), it's time to get young motors humming and rumbling in its companion story. It's a brand new day so, "Fasten seatbelt, drive away." The acrylic paintings portray scenes of a little boy moving through his morning with a toy vehicle always at hand, while images of the world awakening appear on alternating pages. The youngster pushes his cars along a diminutive highway, while outside cars and trucks maneuver through traffic to the tune of "Honk! Honk! And Brmm! Brmm!" He's not old enough to hop the school bus that stops outside his window, but he's imaginative enough to envision helicopters dipping through tall buildings and jets zooming to lift-off. Iwai again delivers colorful visions of a boy's view amid a world crammed with vehicles. Brimming with tantalizing motor sounds and with just the right amount of rhyming text, this will get young ones' mornings off to a zippy start. (Picture book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews

"Brimming with tantalizing motor sounds and ... rhyming text, this will get young ones' mornings off to a zippy start." Kirkus Reviews

"The short, rhyming text reads aloud well, with just enough words ... and plenty of sounds for children to enjoy." Booklist, ALA

"The bright acrylic paints are appropriate for a story about waking up and the illustrations are satisfying." School Library Journal

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