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      Mary Smith

      by Andrea U'Ren
      Published
      Aug 2003
      Main Genre
      Historical Historical
      Pages
      32
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      About This Book

      Time to get up!

      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?
       
      Mary Smith is a 2004 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

      Genres & Themes

      Genres

      General Fiction

      Subgenres

      Historical

      Themes

      Comedy / Humor

      Age Level

      Kids (12 & Under) Kids: Picture Books

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      Aug 2003 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374348427 ISBN10 0374348421
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