Wake Up Kisses for Good Night Dreams
Written: Jun 26 '04
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Pros: Descriptions of animal night life
Cons: none for us
The Bottom Line: Wake Up Kisses is a nice quiet bedtime story for preschool children.
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From the title of the book Wake Up Kisses, you'd never think that this is actually a bedtime story, but once you open the pages and begin to read about the activities of the different nocturnal animals, you'll see that it really is about night time.
Wake Up Kisses by: Pamela Duncan Edwards is a hardcover, 24 page book featuring several of our nightime animal friends as they wake up and begin their night of activities. The pages are colored dark to give the appearance of nighttime. Baby katydids, owls, field mice, bats, tree frogs and more are awakened by their mothers to begin their day (night). Croak! Croak! Tree frog sings, let's get busy doing things! and Lazyheads! Opossum hisses. I'm waiting to get my wake up kisses are a couple of the examples.
It's easy to see that although these animals are awakening to begin their day, it is still nighttime for us, and the tone of the book easily offers soothing bedtime reading. As the final page reads They're waking up our nighttime friends. Their day begins as our day ends. We're snuggled in bed. Time to turn out the light, but we'll see them in our dreams tonight.
Wake Up Kisses = Night Night Kisses
We have had this book since my 3 1/2 year daughter was a baby. It was pushed behind her book shelf and I rediscovered it a few weeks ago while cleaning her room. Most of the bedtime stories we read our memorized and she does most of the story telling these days. It was a wonderful blessing to be able to tuck her in bed and have her lie there and actually listen to me read this book to her. After we read the story she asked me all about the night time animals. What's a katydid? Why does the opossum hiss? Are raccoons mean? Do skunks stink? So, the book was not only a fun quiet time book to read, but it also proved to be educational (for my daughter and for me). Snuggles and kisses good night follow each time we read the "wake up" book.
Wake Up Kisses
Author: Pamela Duncan Edwards
Illustrator: Henry Cole
24 pages Hardcover ISBN 0066239761
Ages 3-6
Card Catalog/Inside cover summary: Katydids, owls, opossums, and other nocturnal animal mothers and babies wake up to a bright moon and a night to be filled with activities.
Recommended:
Yes
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