Wake Up, Island

by Mary Casanova

Nick Wroblewski (Illustrator)

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Wake up, little one, a soft voice beckons, the world around you is already stirring. As Wake Up, Island gently rouses the sleepy child, it summons a world of nature coming to life on a summer island in the magical North Woods. Sunlit fingers touch the shores, pine trees stretch their limbs, and lichen warms on ancient rock. Doe and fawn rise from their grass bed and pearls of dew bead a spider’s finely woven web. Mallards skim the water’s surface. Ravens perch and gargle greetings, chickadees call dee, dee, dee, and a heron swoops—minnows flee! The moose and her calf wade, munching on plants. The red squirrel chatters. The black bear lazily scratches her back against a tree.

Conjuring the morning life around a cabin fragrant with berry pancakes, this timeless book wakens the child in every reader to the wonders of nature that greet every new day in the charmed world of a northern woodland island.


  • ISBN10 0816689350
  • ISBN13 9780816689354
  • Publish Date 24 February 2016
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Minnesota Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 40
  • Language English