Wake Up Engines [Hardcover]

Denise Dowling Mortensen (Author), Melissa Iwai (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 2 and up

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.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

A boy awakens one morning to the sound of engines revving. He runs his toy cars around a little track in his room; outside, cars leave their garages on his street and head for expressways. Next, he brushes his teeth, while outside, the sweeper truck brushes the street: "Gutters glisten / shiny, clean. Whirring, purring / street machine." Inside, he loads his stuffed animals into a toy school bus; children board the real school bus. Throughout the morning, the boy's play at home parallels the sights and sounds of cars, trucks, and planes in the larger world. The short, rhyming text reads aloud well, with just enough words to comment on the action and plenty of sounds for children to enjoy, from the "RUMBLE! ROOOAR!" of the school bus to the "BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!" of the garbage truck. Vivid acrylic paintings fill the double-page spreads with moving vehicles, effectively contrasting with domestic scenes of the child at play. Phelan, Carolyn

Review

"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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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 2 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Clarion Books; None edition (July 16, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0618517367
• ISBN-13: 978-0618517367
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 9.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,017,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My 2 year old knows all the words.., May 20, 2008

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Elizabeth Mettler (DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wake Up Engines (Hardcover)

Both my kids (girl 3, boy 2) love this book and the companion "Good Night Engines". And what's more important - I even like it. Sweet books with fun words to read and imaginative illustrations. Not too short, not too long.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 20 month old obsessed with this book!, June 14, 2010

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Sandra M. Abissini "MI mom" (Macomb, MI, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wake Up Engines (Hardcover)

My son LOVES this book! The pictures are nice and likes to point to all of the different trucks and especially the "big airplane". Very cute book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Son loves these books!, May 28, 2010

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S. Bergman (Halfmoon, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wake Up Engines (Hardcover)

Good reads for toddlers. Short rhymes per page, with transportation every. We had originally gotten them at the library, but found we needed our own copies at home. Don't forget Goodnight Engines by the same author.