antlersantlers's review
4.0
Kind of the opposite of a bedtime picture book, Mary Smith tells the story of a woman in 1920s England who used a pea-shooter to wake people up. Thank god I live in a time of reliable alarm clocks! The story is really fun and not too long at all; and the illustrations have a cool ligne claire style with beautiful dimensional coloring. 4 year no circ? It stays!
engpunk77's review
4.0
I just loved this! I never knew that before alarm clocks that people had "knocker-upper" jobs or whatever, going around and waking the the train conductor, the factory workers, the teachers, etc. by scratching at their windows with long, thin poles. In this case Mary uses a pea-shooter, and it's her job to walk around shooting people and their windows with projectile peas. Short, quick read with a bit of humor and a blurb at the end about the true historical context.
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