“Readers will want to pore over this thoroughly engaging volume.” - Kirkus Reviews, starred review As added value, the inside of the jacket-which pictures each vehicle and a simple description of what it does-can be hung in a child’s room as a poster. But it is also a marvel of ingenuity on the part of Red Nose Studio, who has hand-built each of the trucks, as well as the construction site, then photographed his 3-D creations. Here is an ingenious book that showcases all kinds of trucks and celebrates the joy of imaginative play. But is this a real construction site, or a boy's backyard? And after he is done with the structure, what happens next? Yes, the inevitable: he makes it all tumbe down and is ready to start all over again! The payloader makes the hole for the foundation ("DIG"), the semi-loader brings in the huge blocks ("HAUL") and the crane lifts them up ("HOIST"). Then delight in the surprise ending, where young readers and listeners can see that the trucks are actually toys that a little boy is playing with!īulldozer, dump truck, and crane are just a few of the vehicles working together in these pages to build something incredible.
įor all young truck lovers and fans of books like Good Night, Good Night, Construction Site! Watch a series of amazing construction vehicles-a dump truck, a bulldozer, and many others-build a building unlike any other. Ages 3-7.Īvailable for pre-order now and on sale everywhere. (Oct.Dedicated to the power of imagination and hands-on-play. Root’s portraits of the boy’s solitary exploration convey the force of Winter’s message about “learning to love those things/ that didn’t cost a single penny.” Ages 5–9. Winter’s writing is thoughtful and deeply felt. There’s time for fun, too, such as a trip to the icehouse in the old Model T. “But you’ve also said/ you never went hungry,” Winter recalls, as Root draws the family gathered around a table spread with vegetables from the garden. he had to run a footrace against other men like him./ If he won, that meant he got to work that day”) Root (Whatever Happened to the Pony Express?) shows Grandpa Winter crossing the finish line a stride ahead of the other men. Directly addressing his father in second-person narration, Winter pulls no punches about the humiliation Grandpa Winter faced to keep his family fed (“Some mornings. She softens the rough edges and sees the beauty of the East Texas country where Grandpa Winter lives with his wife and eight children. Root’s sun-faded, ink-and-wash drawings make gentle companions for Winter’s (Here Comes the Garbage Barge!) account of his father’s hardscrabble Depression-era childhood.
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