Wake-Up Kisses

By Pamela Duncan Edwards

Book Overview

When the sun goes down, it's time to rise and shine for many nighttime creatures. There's much to do as Owl, Opossum, and other nocturnal friends hurry about to wake their young. It's time to get busy, but not without those wake-up kisses Pamela Duncan Edwards and Henry Cole have created an adorable picture book about animal babies whose day begins as the rest of the world is falling asleep.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0066239761
• ISBN13: 9780066239767
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 3 to 6 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 1

Customer Reviews

Tough to find, but worth it

In an upside-down twist on traditional bedtime stories, Wake-Up Kisses tells of the waking activities of many nocturnal creatures. If one could judge a book by it's cover, this book has a brighter cover than most bedtime storybooks, with a subtle heart shape made of leaves and ringed by the nighttime animals discussed within. The colored pastel and charcoal drawings are done on restful dark hued backgrounds, causing the white chalk highlights to jump off of the page. The crescent moon plays a familiar motif as it makes it's appearance throughout the story, gently lighting the opossum, owls, bats and other nighttime animals busy "day." With perhaps a sentence or two of text on each page, this story is clearly meant to be read slowly and savored as a nighttime before bed treat for parents and children. The rhyming text is also geared to appeal to younger listeners. Without a real narrative plot, the book takes us through some of the ordinary routines of animals, portraying a comforting, loving parent-child relation in every case. With it's constant exhortations of "Everyone up," "Rise and shine," "Let's get busy doing things" and "Open your eyes" among others, this book just may hoodwink some small children straight to dreamland.

Nocturnal Animals and Love

This book is wonderfully illustrated, showing upclose pictures of different nocturnal animals. The story line is short and with few lines to a page makes it a good read for little children. Good story to teach children about nocturnal animals and how they differ from animals who sleep at night.