By Sherri Duskey Rinker
The daytime companion to the bedtime favorite: the same five construction machines take on a job too big for any one of them and get it done by working together.
The crew from 'Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site' is back, wide awake this time and facing a job that's too big for any single machine. The crane, the cement mixer, the dump truck, the bulldozer, and the excavator each bring their own strength, and the book's whole heart is that they can only pull it off together. It's got the same warm rhyme and the same lovable trucks, pointed this time at teamwork instead of bedtime.
It gives a child who wore out the first book more of exactly what they loved - the same five trucks, the same cozy rhyme - with a new spine of teamwork running through it. Each machine matters because the job needs all of them, which is a big idea delivered gently to a small listener. It's the natural next step for a family already hooked on the construction site.