In a time before alarm clocks, Mary Smith, a “knocker-up,” walks through the town early in the morning, waking people up by shooting at their windows with her peashooter.

• ISBN: 9780374348427
• Author: U'Ren, Andrea
• Published: 2003 , Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
• Themes: City and town life, morning, Sleep
• Descriptors: England (UK), Fiction, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)
• No. of pages: 32