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It's dark and quiet.The moon still glimmers in the sky.While the baker, the ferry boat captain, and the TV anchorman are busy at work, most people are cozily snuggled in bed. Then dawn's first light peeks through the tree branches. Wake up, city! There is much to be done in neighborhoods all across the metropolis. As the morning gets brighter, the city streets bustle with people ready to start the day.
Author Notes
Pat Kiernan has been waking up before dawn since 1997. He's become a fixture on New York City televisions as the morning news anchor for NY1. He's hosted nationally televised game shows and has appeared as himself in dozens of movies and TV shows. He lives with his wife and daughters in Brooklyn, New York.Pascal Campion is a freelance illustrator whose clients include DreamWorks Animation, Disney Toons, Cartoon Network, They Might Be Giants, PBS, and Tor.com. He lives in Los Angeles, California. ascalcampion.blogspot.com
Reviews (5)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 3-Scattered stars and a crescent moon illuminate skyscrapers swathed in the midnight blue of early predawn. Subsequent spreads show the city's earliest risers at work-toiling in a bakery, delivering papers or food, or collecting garbage. As the sky lightens, a school bus picks up its first passengers, workers on a construction site plan an excavation, and a little girl and her family awaken. Each full spread features three simple lines of text: "It's busy inside the bakery./Measure. Mix. Knead./Fresh bread will soon rise like the sun." Most pages include a middle line describing the sounds of the city at daybreak. The illustrations are detailed and stylized, depicting a clean, busy city filled with happy, attractive, and diverse people of all ages as they start their day. The final page shows the girl's family breakfasting, with a lovely bay-window view of the city as they watch the morning news. "Good morning, city./The anchorman reads the news./'It's going to be a beautiful, sunny day.'" VERDICT A fun read-aloud to pair with Elaine Moore and William Low's Good Morning, City. Perfect for units on communities or cities or for a lesson on onomatopoeia.-Barbara Auerbach, New York City Public Schools © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Kiernan knows a lot about how a city shakes off sleep: he's the beloved morning anchor on NY1, New York City's 24-hour news channel. Combining short, poetic descriptions with onomatopoeia, the first-time children's book author explains that the city wakes up long before readers do-even before the sun itself. The baker and her team go to work while the moon "still glimmers in the sky": "Measure. Mix. Knead. Fresh bread will soon rise like the sun." The docks come to life ("Splash. Toot! Toot!"), and the streets and sidewalks fill with dog walkers, joggers, and workers. The sun's "long rays break over the tops of tall buildings," and light floods the bedroom where a girl is sleeping; her family's day begins. Campion (The Last Christmas Tree) has a wonderful way with color and changing light (the bedroom scene is positively radiant), and his energetic city dwellers-from the gentleman who holds his hat as he jetés through a crosswalk to the folks chatting and flirting over diner coffee-seem certain they're living in the best place in the world. Ages 2-6. Author's agent: Paul Fedorko, Bienstock. Illustrator's agent: Justin Rucker, Shannon Associates. (Nov.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Horn Book Review
Even before the sun rises, the city is waking up. A newspaper carrier rushes to her last deliveries. Whoosh. Thump. The paper lands on the stoop. / Drop that rope! the captain hollers. Splash. Toot. Toot! The ferry boat starts its morning rounds. The bakery, the diner, morning joggers, delivery and garbage trucks, commuters, and more begin their days until listeners find themselves in a little girls bedroom. She, too, awakens and embraces the morning time with her family over pancakes for breakfast. Spare text and city-sounds onomatopoeia work with the lush illustrations to satisfyingly depict the early- to mid-morning activities. The unique way the light changes, dapples, and washes over each double-page spread makes this look at daybreak particularly captivating, and the texts described frenzy of traffic, people, and activity feels not rushed but alive and expectant. In this ode to city mornings, everyone is smiling and no one looks tired or grouchy, making for an invigorating way to start the day. julie roach (c) Copyright 2016. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
What happens in the morning when children are asleep? Its dark and quiet. The moon still glimmers in the sky. The sun may not have risen, but people are already at work in this city. Bread is being kneaded, papers are being delivered, and a ferry is picking people up. Stylized illustrations with an animated feel combine with clear, straightforward text replete with urban sounds to describe morning dawning in the city. The book reveals the quiet mysteries of what happens before children are out and about as the day moves forward and people begin to go about their everyday lives. A racially diverse cast of characters, many of them women, deliver goods, guide traffic, jog, serve food, eat, collect garbage, drive buses and cars, and work construction as the sun gradually comes up and displaces the moons shadowy light, eventually waking a young girl and her brother, both white, who are ready to play. Their father makes breakfast, and the TV news lets them know: Its going to be a beautiful, sunny day. Notable for its portrayal of women and men of different colors in both nontraditional and traditional occupations, this selection provides a direct, realistic depiction of a typical urban morning. A fine addition to the waking-up shelf. (Picture book. 2-6) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
This absorbing picture book gives a behind-the-scenes look at the workings of a city at daybreak. The front cover shows a family at the top of a San Francisco-like street, rushing to school, but the book itself begins while it is still dark. Readers move from an inky cityscape to the bright interior of a bakery, and then outside again, to a girl on a bike, delivering newspapers along a street just tinged with gray light. The book keeps giving fascinating glimpses of what people of different races and ages do as the sun rises, gradually brightening the illustrations with each page turn. For example, a ferry boat captain guides his boat from a dock (Splash. Toot! Toot!); dog-walkers and joggers pound the pavement; a waitress juggles customers' orders in a crowded diner. The light keeps intensifying in the bustling illustrations, until the baby wakes up and the family (from the book's cover) gathers at the breakfast table to start their day. Pair with Wake Up, City!, by Erica Silverman (2016).--Fletcher, Connie Copyright 2016 Booklist