Review by Booklist Review
"A boy awakens one morning to the sound of engines revving. He runs his toy cars around a little track in his room; outside, cars leave their garages on his street and head for expressways. Next, he brushes his teeth, while outside, the sweeper truck brushes the street: Gutters glisten / shiny, clean. Whirring, purring / street machine. Inside, he loads his stuffed animals into a toy school bus; children board the real school bus. Throughout the morning, the boy's play at home parallels the sights and sounds of cars, trucks, and planes in the larger world. The short, rhyming text reads aloud well, with just enough words to comment on the action and plenty of sounds for children to enjoy, from the RUMBLE! ROOOAR! of the school bus to the BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! of the garbage truck. Vivid acrylic paintings fill the double-page spreads with moving vehicles, effectively contrasting with domestic scenes of the child at play."--"Phelan, Carolyn" Copyright 2007 Booklist
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Picking up where Good Night Engines left off, Wake Up Engines by Denise Dowling Mortensen, illus. by Melissa Iwai, draws parallels between the boy's morning activities and those of the city's vehicles, such as the brushing of his teeth and a city sweeper cleaning the streets. (Clarion, $16 32p ages 2-6 ISBN 9780-618-51736-7; July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Review by School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 1-In this follow-up to Good Night Engines (Clarion, 2003), a boy greets the new day with the help of his many rigs and vehicles. As he brushes his teeth, he imagines the street sweeper-"City sweeper/rumble, hiss./Scrubbing brushes/SWISH!/SWISH!/SWISH!" The bright acrylic paints are appropriate for a story about waking up and the illustrations are satisfying to look at whether depicting the child or highlighting a vehicle at work.-Linda M. Kenton, San Rafael Public Library, CA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
After having glided into slumber to the soothing cadence of Good Night Engines (2003), it's time to get young motors humming and rumbling in its companion story. It's a brand new day so, "Fasten seatbelt, drive away." The acrylic paintings portray scenes of a little boy moving through his morning with a toy vehicle always at hand, while images of the world awakening appear on alternating pages. The youngster pushes his cars along a diminutive highway, while outside cars and trucks maneuver through traffic to the tune of "Honk! Honk! And Brmm! Brmm!" He's not old enough to hop the school bus that stops outside his window, but he's imaginative enough to envision helicopters dipping through tall buildings and jets zooming to lift-off. Iwai again delivers colorful visions of a boy's view amid a world crammed with vehicles. Brimming with tantalizing motor sounds and with just the right amount of rhyming text, this will get young ones' mornings off to a zippy start. (Picture book. 2-5) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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