Book review: Wake Up! by Katie Cleminson
As we invariably leave our daily reading as a treat at bedtime, I like books that end with its characters going to bed themselves. It puts my boy in the right mood for a good night’s sleep, and always feels like a fitting end to the day, no matter what you have been up to.
Wake UP by Katie Cleminson ticks this box with bells on.
It is tale of one boy’s very busy day, very apt for the little boy of this house. He wakes up, and up and up, and the book continues beautifully along the same rhyming vein.
He goes to school, where he must listen up, and up and up.
His adventures include all sorts of things in a typical young boy’s life. Dressing up, playing, show and tell, eating, bathing, and cuddling up for bed.
My son could relate to all these things, and enjoyed having the book read at a lively pace, but also enjoyed stopping me to pour over the wonderful illustrations, trying to spot things that are mentioned in the book’s verse.
Katie Cleminson is clearly a very talented illustrator and author. This book follows the impressively successful Box of Tricks that earned Katie the prestigious honour of Best Emerging Illustrator at the Booktrust Early Years Awards 2009.
On receiving that award Cleminson explained how it actually left her ‘lost for words’.
The illustrations in this book are wonderfully crafted using pen and ink. Some pages are made up of a single scene, while others are made of a collective of smaller drawings. All are eloquently accompanied by the appropriate text
For an emerging reader the language is uncomplicated, and even for a child at the very beginning of learning to read, the style of the book encourages them to engage with it.
Along with Jacqueline Wilson, Katie will be judging the Vintage Classics competition to find a young artist to design the jackets for a new edition of the Secret Garden. The competition is for 7 to 12 year olds and is running in The Times newspaper.
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I love the sound of this. Picture books with special details for young readers (and chooks) are my favourite kind.