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Time to get up!
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
August 2003
On Sale: August 13, 2003
32 pages
ISBN: 0374348421
EAN: 9780374348427
Hardcover
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Did you ever wonder how people woke up in time for school
or work in the days before alarm clocks? In the early
twentieth century, townspeople in England hired
"knocker-ups" like Mary Smith for a few pence a week. Mary
Smith traveled through predawn streets armed with a
peashooter and a pocket watch, waking her clients at
whatever hour they requested by plinking dried peas at their
bedroom windows. In rollicking words and pictures, Andrea U’Ren re-creates
one busy morning in the life of her intrepid true-life
subject – a morning when Mary Smith helps her town start its
day in timely fashion, only to receive a rude awakening when
she comes home. Could it be that the knocker-up’s own
daughter has been sleeping in?
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