Hills Tad - Waking Up Wendell

Text copyright 2007 by April Stevens Illustrations copyright 2007 by Tad Hills All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Childrens Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. SCHWARTZ & WADE BOOKS and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc. www.randomhouse.com/kids Educators and Librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, visit us at www.randomhouse.com/teachers Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stevens, April. Waking up Wendell / April Stevens ; illustrated by Tad Hills. p. cm. cm.

Summary: Early in the morning, a bird begins to sing at #1 Fish Street, waking the man next door and his dog, and before long, as one noise leads to another, everyone on the street is awake. eISBN: 978-0-375-98924-7 [1. MorningFiction. 2. NoiseFiction. 3.

NeighborhoodFiction.] I. Hills, Tad, ill. II. Title. PZ7.S84315Wak 2007 [E]dc22 2006030979 v3.0 E arly in the morning, a little bird at #1 Fish Street hops out of her nest, takes a deep breath, and begins to sing a very loud and whistley song. At #2 Fish Street, Mr.

Krudwig, owner of Krudwigs Bicycle Shop, is in bed dreaming of pancakes. Oh, for crying out loud! Mr. Krudwig grumbles to his dog, Leopold. That screeching sparrow could wake a brick wall. He climbs out of bed, puts on his checkered bathrobe, and creaks down his stairs to let old Leopold out the back door. Leopold is happy to be outside on such a nice day.

He trots over to his favorite pear tree, makes his morning wee-wee, then does what he always does first thing. He begins to bark. No one is quite sure why Leopold does this. Maybe hes shouting good morning to the other dogs on the street. Maybe hes ordering that annoying bird to put a lid on it. All this racket wakes up Mrs. All this racket wakes up Mrs.

Musky at #3 Fish Street. She opens her bedroom window, leans out, and yells, LEOPOLD, YOU STOP
THAT YAPPING! Then she shuffles into her kitchen, puts a kettle of water on, and heads into her bathroom to get her hair under control. While she is brushing and spraying and smoothing, the whistle on Mrs. Muskys kettle starts to blow high and clear, like a train pulling out of a station. The howling kettle makes Mrs. Mrs. Mrs.

Depolo teaches kindergarten and is always late. OH, FIDDLEFISH! she hollers. She jumps out of bed, throws on her clothes, races down her stairs, and dives out the door. And as she backs her car out of the driveway, her tires make a loud SCREEEECH! and then a GLEEEEEEP! and then she is gone. Flying down Fish Street! The SCREECH! GLEEP! makes Henry Whittlespoon roll over in his bed and yawn. Henry is nine years old and lives at #5 Fish Street.

For his birthday his grandma gave him a shiny new harmonica, and since then he plays whenever he can. So the first thing he does, even before he opens his eyes, is reach under his pillow, pull out his harmonica, and begin to play. From her bedroom, Mrs. Whittlespoon yells, Henry cant hear her. But Gloria, who has been sleeping on the doorstep outside #6 Fish Street, can. She is the Darjeelings cat, and she uncurls herself, stands up, and stretches.

Thinking of her bowl of kitty krunchies inside, she pit-pats over to the kitchen door. Gloria digs her claws into the screen and pulls the door open a little, then lets it go. She slips her claws back in and does it again.