Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site: Let's Go!

by Sherri Duskey Rinker, Tom Lichtenheld (Illustrator)

Overview

Tracks, treads, engines, lights, and more! The hardworking parts of kids' favorite construction vehicles from Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site can be explored in this playfully shaped board book with graduated pages. Each page is shaped like the vehicle on it and is sturdy enough to withstand wear and tear from the roughest, toughest readers. Handy labels highlight the different parts of each vehicle as an accompaniment to the charming rhyming text. From bulldozers to dump trucks, the youngest construction fans will be revved up and raring to go.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452164762
Publisher:	Chronicle Books LLC
Publication date:	08/01/2017
Pages:	10
Sales rank:	111,342
Product dimensions:	8.12(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 2 Years

About the Author

Sherri Duskey Rinker is the author of #1 New York Times bestsellers Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site and Steam Train, Dream Train. She loves cooking, gardening, and old oil paintings. Sherri lives with her photographer husband, two sons, one dog, and one hedgehog in St. Charles, Illinois.

Tom Lichtenheld is the illustrator of #1 New York Times bestsellers Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site and Steam Train, Dream Train, created with Sherri Duskey Rinker, and Duck! Rabbit! and I Wish You More, created with Amy Krouse Rosenthal. He lives near Chicago, Illinois.

Editorial Reviews

07/31/2017
This polished spin-off of Rinker and Lichtenheld’s bestselling Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site features graduated pages shaped like five construction vehicles. Rinker’s sturdy rhymes touch on how the vehicles operate (“Bulldozer pushes on his thick, strong tread./ Mighty Dump Truck hauls dirt in his bed”), and small labels on each illustration point out their pertinent tools and gear (outrigger, scoop, canopy, etc.). Though the emphasis is on hard work, the static profile views of the vehicles and the dark blue backdrops against which they are set play right into the soothing bedtime theme of the book’s final pages. Up to age 3. Agent: Amy Rennert, Amy Rennert Agency. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

"The Goodnight, Moon of construction books."-Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2017-09-18
Heavy machinery explained, for lovers of heavy machinery.This primer for aspiring readers with penchants for large, motorized construction rigs introduces five familiar vehicles that push, carry, lift, churn, and dig. A few lines of simple, rhymed text name each machine and describe its function opposite a succession of illustrated pages die-cut in the shapes of the larger and larger pieces of heavy equipment they depict. Each slightly anthropomorphized truck looks powerful yet friendly. Every illustration features four vocabulary words for specific parts of the vehicle in question. Toddlers learn to name bulldozers, dump trucks, cranes, cement mixers, and excavators as well as a few of the most prominent features of each, including treads, scoops, engines, cabs, hoppers, outriggers, and booms. Depending upon a child's age and interest level, the book can be a quick read or an opportunity for pointing, naming, questions, and answers. Rhymed text appears on backgrounds of several varied hues. The illustrations, on the other hand, each share the same dark purple background. As the book contains no previous mention or depiction of sunlight or time of day, readers unfamiliar with the blockbuster picture book this is based on may be confused when the final rhyme announces nightfall. Nevertheless, a happily snoozing moon nestled in the scoop of an excavator should invite yawns and an easy transition to bedtime.Certainly, there is sufficient vocabulary to make this the Goodnight, Moon of construction books. (Board book. 1-5)

Kirkus Reviews