Mortimer will not be quiet and go to sleep. Not for his mother, or his father, or his seventeen sisters and brothers, not even for the police. A newly designed Classic Munsch picture book introduces this unforgettable noise-maker to a new generation of young readers.
Authors
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- CaOOCEL
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- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- jC813/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Previously published: 1983 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781773211589 9781773210834
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.M818
- LCCN Item number
- M67 2018eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (unpaged)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00979997 (OCoLC)1123229753 (CaOOCEL)457117
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- STORY by ROBERT MUNSCH 3
- ART by MICHAEL MARTCHENKO 3
- To Billy Sheila and Kathleen Cronin 4
- One night Mortimers mother took him upstairs to go to bed 5
- When they got upstairs Mortimers mother opened the door to his room. 5
- She threw him into bed and said 5
- MORTIMER BE QUIET. 5
- Mortimer shook his head yes. 5
- The mother shut the door. Then she went back down the stairs 6
- As soon as she got back downstairs Mortimer sang 6
- Clang clang rattle-bing-bang Gonna make my noise all day. Clang clang rattle-bing-bang Gonna make my noise all day. 6
- Mortimers father heard all that noise. He came up the stairs 7
- He opened the door and yelled 7
- MORTIMER BE QUIET. 7
- Mortimer shook his head yes. 7
- The father went back down the stairs 8
- As soon as he got to the bottom of the stairs Mortimer sang 8
- Clang clang rattle-bing-bang Gonna make my noise all day. Clang clang rattle-bing-bang Gonna make my noise all day. 8
- All of Mortimers seventeen brothers and sisters heard that noise and they all came up the stairs 9
- They opened the door and yelled in a tremendous loud voice 9
- MORTIMER BE QUIET. 9
- Mortimer shook his head yes. 9
- The brothers and sisters shut the door and went downstairs 10
- As soon as they got to the bottom of the stairs Mortimer sang 10
- Clang clang rattle-bing-bang Gonna make my noise all day. Clang clang rattle-bing-bang Gonna make my noise all day. 10
- They got so upset that they called the police. Two policemen came and they walked very slowly up the stairs 11
- They opened the door and said in very deep policemen-type voices 11
- MORTIMER BE QUIET. 11
- The policemen shut the door and went back down the stairs 12
- As soon as they got to the bottom of the stairs Mortimer sang 12
- Clang clang rattle-bing-bang Gonna make my noise all day. Clang clang rattle-bing-bang Gonna make my noise all day. 12
- Well downstairs no one knew what to do. 13
- The mother got into a big fight with the policemen. 13
- The father got into a big fight with the brothers and sisters. 13
- Upstairs Mortimer got so tired waiting for someone to come up that he fell asleep. 14
