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WAKE UP ENGINES
Clarion Books, 2007
For ages: 2-6
List price: $16.00
ISBN: 0618517367
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Summary:
This lyrical, rhyming verse is the flip-side to Good Night Engines! In
it, a small boy starts his day at the same time as many big engines—including
a garbage truck, street sweeper, school bus, and plane—warm
up and begin theirs. Melissa Iwai’s dramatic perspectives
alternate between the boy’s toys and the life-size engines
in the outside world. For engine lovers of all ages!
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Reviews of Ohio Thunder
“An effective read-aloud to spark discussions about weather or ways to deal with storms and the fears they might evoke.” —School Library Journal
“Good for reading aloud, this fine picture book chronicles the passage of a powerful storm in words and pictures that create a mood as well as describe events… The artwork as a whole is as evocative as the verse, and the illustrations of the landscape and stormy sky are compelling.” —Booklist
Reviews
for Good Night Engines
"The unforced rhyme beautifully expresses
both the rush of wheels and then the hush as they come 'Grinding.
Stopping. Resting.' … Pair this with Margaret Wise
Brown's classic Good Night, Moon." —Hazel Rochman, Booklist
"Playing to kids' perennial fascination with vehicles,
this bedtime book—Mortensen's debut—uses truncated
rhyming verse to describe how a train, 18-wheel truck, fire engine,
etc., slow down at the end of the day. 'Jumbo jet plane/ cleared
to land./ Downward, roaring/turbofan./ Wheels on runway in a rush./
Grinding. Stopping. Resting./ Hush.' …This sweet book will
help motor-happy readers to put their own engines in idle." —Publishers Weekly, November 3, 2003
"Told in rhyme, the story is as smooth and easy as a familiar
lullaby… Iwai's acrylic, full-page spreads match the
quiet text. Dominant colors reflect the shifting light, so that
the pinks and oranges of the early pages give way to deeper purples
and blues by the book's end… Children will relate
to this depiction of this end-of-day ritual, and the book is sure
to appeal to kids who love big rigs." —School Library Journal, December 2003 "For kids whose first utterances were 'Mama,' 'Dada,' and
'Vroom'—not
necessarily in that order—here’s the perfect way to
downshift at night. The book's scenes alternate between a
bedroom, where a boy plays with his trucks, planes, and trains
one last time, and the world outside, where real vehicles shut
down for the day. Gentle rhymes also celebrate the marvel of transportation
while helping its devotees switch off and go to bed." —Julia Yates Walton, Child
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