<DIV><B>Time to get up!</B><BR><BR>Did you ever wonder how people woke up in time for school <BR>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.<BR><BR>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?</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV><DIV><I>Mary Smith</I> is a 2004 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.</DIV></DIV>